Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London

THE UNPARALLELED INVASION

It was in the year 1976 that the trouble between the world and
China reached its culmination. It was because of this that the
celebration of the Second Centennial of American Liberty was
deferred. Many other plans of the nations of the earth were
twisted and tangled and postponed for the same reason. The world
awoke rather abruptly to its danger; but for over seventy years,
unperceived, affairs had been shaping toward this very end.