Although Germany was not very passionate about expanding to the Far East at the beginning of Japanese-Sino War, it began to acknowledge that it was the right time for Germany to obtain a foothold in the Far East amid a changing course of the war and also changing stances of the other world powers.
開戦初期は極東に対し消極的であったが、戦局の推移や列強の動向の変化により、極東に自国の拠点を得る機会が到来したと認識するようになった。