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Bill Taft: “In China the policy of encouraging financial investment to enable that country to help itself has had the result of…”

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In China the policy of encouraging financial investment to enable that country to help itself has had the result of giving new life and practical application to the open-door policy.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft discusses the positive outcomes of encouraging financial investment in China, linking it to the broader open-door policy.

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