The Western powers, with equal docility, had given up their hundred-year role of imperialist aggression, returned the treaty port concessions and recognized China as a fully sovereign state and Chiang as her rightful ruler.

• 一百年来对中国实行帝国主义侵略的西方列强，也乖乖地归还了租界，承认中国是一个主权完整的国家，承认蒋介石是中国的合法统治者。