Note 108 — INTRODUCTORY
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The Russian diplomatic historian to whom frequent reference has been made frankly says that the feebleness and internal disorder of China are welcome conditions for the expansion of Russian influence in the Far East, and that it would be the height of folly to displace the weak China with a colonial possession of a European power.—The Dōbun-kwai Hōkoku, No. 48, p. 36.