With regard to the industrial and commercial relations that China seeks to create in Europe, and the agents that it would like to recruit there for internal works or its administration, Belgium can offer it resources equal to those of the States of first order. In addition, the country's situation, its essentially peaceful character, precludes any possibility of political conflict.

All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), A key figure in the background of early Belgian colonialism When Guangxu ascended the Chinese imperial throne as a child in 1873, the baron saw a small opening. He tried in vain to invite a Chinese delegation to Brussels and wrote to the Belgian diplomatic representatives in China. WILLEQUET, J. Le baron Lambermont, 65.