Dan Seitz

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As far as Tokyo was concerned, its new strategy in China seemed to be paying handsome dividends. The Americans appeared surprisingly easy to intimidate. Given the perilous state of the war in Europe, the British and French were willing to concede virtually anything Japan demanded.31 In January 1917, in exchange for the despatch of a Japanese flotilla to the eastern Mediterranean to help combat the Austro-German U-boat menace, they secretly approved Japan’s retention of Germany’s rights in Shandong after the end of the war.
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
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