Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gray then went on to say that treaty revision with the United States would force the other countries to follow suit because of the competition for Chinese trade...
...Nothing is further from our intentions than to be drawn into an adventurous, aggressive or ambitious Byzantine policy in China. All we want to do in China is trade with China. We regard the 400,000,000 of Chinese as potential friends and customers. Almost the last thing you usually do with a potential customer is to shoot him. The last thing to wish is that the potential customer should shoot...
...contact during which time foreign powers and their nationals have acquired a privileged position in China. During the past half century many Chinese have studied and applied to their own country, in so far as possible, Western ideas China herself has been directly affected by development of foreign trade and disturbance of her economic equilibrium and the result is that China's leaders are dissatisfied with existing conditions there. It looking for causes they find it easy to believe that foreign powers are foremost among the causes of China's troubles. The Chinese have developed self consciousness and a real...
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...Governors of the New York Stock Exchange have contended with these facts: 1) U. S. investors have more money than U. S. industries, railroads, public utilities and governmental subdivisions want to borrow or are willing to trade for stock shares. 2) In consequence U. S. investors have turned to foreign securities. Last year they bought $1,212,689,000 of foreign bonds. 3) The Exchange lists 76 foreign bond issues, worth $6,000,000,000 at par. 4) The Exchange lists 12,000,000 shares of 22 foreign stock issues only by subterfuge. New York state law forbids the Exchange...