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Fremier Chang's reference to the open door and equal opportunity question is also considered highly significant as indicating that the anchoukuo Government agrees with Japan in the view that the Nine-Fower Treaty and certain other existing treaties or agreements affecting the Far East can be no longer applied to the changed situation as pointed out in the recent reply of the Japanese Foreign Minister to an American note.
These observers further infer from the Premier's statement that the ancho kuo Government will not allow itself to be bound by these old, out-of-date international treaties, agree- ments or principles which now tend to jeopardize the autonomy and independence of Manchoukuo or to bar her normal national
development.
Particular significance is also attached by the same observere to the Fremier's open déclaration that Manchoukuo is ready to cooperate politically and economically with all third Powers which correctly under at nd the fundamental attitude of the sinking Government and adapt their activity to the new
situation in East Asia.
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