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Open Door Policy
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The Open Door Policy was the United States diplomatic policy established in the late 19th and early 20th century that called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial
US cartoon from 1899: Uncle Sam (center, representing the United States) demanding Open Door access to trade with China while European powers plan to
US cartoon from 1899: Uncle Sam (center, representing the United States) demanding Open Door access to trade with China while European powers plan to cut it up for themselves. From left to right: Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), King Umberto I (Italy), John Bull (Britain), Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and President Émile Loubet (France). Emperor Franz Joseph I (Austria) is in the back.
Uncle Sam (United States) rejects force and violence and ask "fair field and no favor," equal opportunity for all trading nations to enter the China m
Uncle Sam (United States) rejects force and violence and ask "fair field and no favor," equal opportunity for all trading nations to enter the China market peacefully, which became the Open Door Policy. Editorial cartoon by William A. Rogers in Harper's Magazine (New York) November 18, 1899.
Stepping stone to trade to huge China Market, from Judge March 11, 1900
Stepping stone to trade to huge China Market, from Judge March 11, 1900
Mc Kinley
Mc Kinley
Foreign imperialism in China
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During the 19th and 20th centuries, foreign powers practiced imperialism in China through the imposition of unequal treaties, opening of treaty ports, and establishment of foreign concessions and leas
Open Door Policy
…in U.S. Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899, and circulated to the major European powers. In order to prevent the "carving of China like a melon", as they were doing in Africa, the Note asked the powers to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis and called upon all powers…
An 1898 French political cartoon depicting Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Japan dividing China
An 1898 French political cartoon depicting Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Japan dividing China
A painting of the Second Battle of Chuenpi of the First Opium War
A painting of the Second Battle of Chuenpi of the First Opium War
A portrait of French minister Marie Melchior Joseph Théodose de Lagrené
A portrait of French minister Marie Melchior Joseph Théodose de Lagrené
The ruins of the Old Summer Palace after being sacked by Anglo–French forces in the Second Opium War.
The ruins of the Old Summer Palace after being sacked by Anglo–French forces in the Second Opium War.