‘The world has been greatly benefited by the development of America as an industrial and a commercial Nation. So a developed China with her four hundred millions of population, will be another New World in the economic sense.’
The International Development of China was a massive proposal from Sun Yat-sen asking for foreign capital in order to assist in the industrial and commercial development of China. Written after the end of World War I, Sun Yat-sen appealed to the League of Nations’ ideals of cooperation and mutual help. Instead of colonial exploitation, Sun Yat-sen proposed mutually beneficial solutions that allowed for China’s development to contribute to world peace.
Sun Yat-sen (孙中山) was a Chinese statesman who served as the first leader of the Nationalist Party of China (Kuomintang) and the first provisional president of the Republic of China.