Teddy Roosevelt: “Owing to the rapid growth of our power and our interests on the…”

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Owing to the rapid growth of our power and our interests on the Pacific, whatever happens in China must be of the keenest national concern to us.

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Roosevelt expresses the importance of China's situation to American national interests due to growing power in the Pacific.

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