The International Development of China (1922)

Sun Yat-sen · 25 Apr 1921

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Unless the question of China is settled peacefully, a greater world war will be inevitable

Their wordsUnless the Chinese question can be settled peacefully, another world war greater and more terrible than the one just past will be inevitable.

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Unless the question of China is settled peacefully, a greater world war will be inevitable

Their wordsUnless the Chinese question can be settled peacefully, another world war greater and more terrible than the one just past will be inevitable.
Our reading
China's resources should be developed internationally under a socialist scheme, for the good of the world and of China

Their wordsIn order to solve the Chinese question, I suggest that the vast resources of China be developed internationally under a socialistic scheme, for the good of the world in general and the Chinese people in particular.
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Cooperation, not struggle, drives human evolution, so the fighting instinct should be eliminated from people

Their wordsAs it has been discovered by post-Darwin philosophers that the primary force of human evolution is coöperation and not struggle as that of the animal world, so the fighting nature, a residue of the animal instinct in man, must be eliminated from man, the sooner the better.
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International war is organized robbery on a grand scale

Their wordsInternational war is nothing more than pure and simple organized robbery on a grand scale, which all right-minded people deplore.
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Trusts cannot be suppressed, so the remedy is for the whole people of a country to own them

Their wordsThe trust is a result of economic evolution, therefore it is out of human power to suppress it. The proper remedy is to have it owned by all the people of the country.
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The goal of material civilization is public profit, reached fastest by cooperation rather than competition

Their wordsThe goal of material civilization is not private profit but public profit. And the shortest route to it is not competition but coöperation.
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China should use capitalism to create socialism, letting the two work side by side

Their wordsIn a nutshell, it is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.

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