The strikes, riots and demonstrations at Shanghai and elsewhere are
evidence of a wide and strong impulse moving in one direction. We are told a great deal about the unrest being due to Bolshevist intrigue, but we suspect that, as usual, Moscow is merely making use of opportuni- ties which she did not create. The truth is that the con- scious sense of nationalism among the Chinese has been growing steadily for a long time as the result of Western methods of education ; it was playing a considerable part in Chinese politics long before Bolshevism was heard of. The chaos brought about by the Civil War is unhappily a very favourable ground for anti-foreign propaganda. The first thing needful for China is to settle her internal disputes. There have been rumours lately that the great rivals Feng, the so-called Christian General—who seems to be. by no means a Christian in his behaviourand Chang, may sink their differences and unite in supporting the new anti-foreign movement of the students.
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