Alliances & Treaties Flashcards
1728 Sino-Vietnam territorial dispute
- Qing China, Lê Dynasty - Tonkin region
- Unclear border demarcations, overlapping claims, local ethnic group allegiances
- Negotiated settlement clarified borders without resolving tensions
1793 MacCartney Mission
- Western trade regulated through Guangzhou (southeast coast)
- Local corruption - 4% tax > 20%
- Language, women
- Aim: alter Sino-Western relations, free trade and diplomatic representation on equal terms
- “tributary envoy” - 80th birthday
- Kowtow (both knees, 9 times) - British monarch (1 knee, 1 time) - Chinese official of similar rank to kowtow to King’s portrait
- Rejected trade-related proposals
1839-42 First Opium War
- Opium from British India - tea trade + Chinese ban - low efficiency, corruption
- Lin Zexu - destroy all British opium + compensation from British government
- Tianjin - poorly defended > Preliminary treaty - Hong Kong, compensation, equal status
- China: embargo > surrender - excrement, urine
- British withdrawal from Guangzhou - 6 million silver dollars - skewed official Chinese report
- Yangtze river, Great Canal > Nanjing
Treaty of Nanjing
- Cession of Hong Kong island
- Monetary compensation (greater than previously negotiated)
- Fiver treaty ports - Guangzhou (Canton), Xiamen (Amoy), Fuzhou (Foochow), Ningbo (Ningpo), Shanghai
- Negotiation of custom tax
1856-60 Second Opium War
- GBR, FRA - trade privilege
- Excuses: raid of ship, arrest of sailors, denigration of GBR flag; killing of FRA missionary
- Outcome: Guangzhou occupied, Tianjin attacked
1858 Treaty of Tianjin
- Expansion of treaty ports
- Right of missionary work
- Envoys stationed in Beijing
1859 Attack on Beijing, Yuanmingyuan Palace
- GBR, FRA missions - enter Beijing to exchange signed treaties - route, scale, arms - armed conflict
- Negotiations failed - mission detained - occupation of Beijing, burning of Yuanmingyuan Palace
1860 Treaty of Beijing/ Convention of Peking
Parties: Qing Dynasty, GRB, FRA, Russian Empire
1. Kowloon - GRB
2. FRA - “religious and charitable establishments which were confiscated from Christians during the persecutions of which they were victims shall be returned to their owners”
3. Russian Empire - Manchuria (shut off Chinese access to Sea of Japan)
1884-85 Sino-French War
- Defended Taiwan - ^administrative control later
- Consented to French colonisation of Vietnam
1871 Sino-Japanese Treaty
- exchange diplomatic missions and consuls
- mutual access to treaty ports
- mutual recognition under consular jurisdiction
- controversies over the term “emperor”
1872 Invasion of Ryukyu
Unilateral declaration of abolishment of Ryukyu throne by Japan
1874 Invasion of Taiwan
- (nominal) retaliation on behalf of Ryukyu residents killed in Taiwan in 1871
- defeated - climate
- Chinese compensation and acquiescence to Japanese claim over Ryukyu
1879 Annexation of Ryukyu
- China did not recognise annexation - could not help regain independence
- Ryukyu official sough refuge in China
Attempts by France and U.S. for Korea to open up
- 1873 debate on invading Korea
- 1875 Ganghwa incident - first military attack on Korea
- 1876 Japan-Korea Treaty of Ganghwa - treaty ports, Korea as independent state (Logic of appropriateness > Logic of consequences, Yangban - Chinese tributary system)
1882 Japan-Korea Treaty of Jemulpo
Japanese army gains right to station forces in Korea to protect diplomatic missions
1882 China-Korea Treaty
Korea remained China’s vassal - Chinese concessions, consular jurisdiction
1894-95 First Sino-Japanese War
- Donghak peasant revolution (Neo-Confucian movement that rejected Western ideas, technology, Christianity, domestic exploitation)
- China > Asan > Japan - withdrawal refused by Japan
- pro-Japanese cabinet
- Japanese attack on Chinese navy = formal declaration of war
- Land battle - Korea > China
- Naval battle - Yellow Sea
- Japanese victory - modernization > China lacked modern army, support from central government, corruption and bureaucracy > poor management
Treaty of Shimonoseki
- cession of Taiwan (including Pescadores Islands > Formosa-Japan War) and Liaodong Peninsula (returned for additional monetary compensation - after Russian, German, French intervention)
- Independence of Korea
- War idemnity ~16,000,000 pounds of silver
- expansion of treaty ports
- right to industrial investment
Sino-Russian secret agreement
- secret grant - right to use any Chinese port during war to contain Japanese pressure
- leaked - Western concessions
- Outcome: Russian, British, German, French demands for long-term lease of strategic ports (organised hypocrisy) (Italy rejected)
Open Door Policy
- 1898 Spanish-American War > US influence in Asia
- China to be open to all countries for trade and investment
- respecting Chinese territorial integrity
1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
- resistance against spread of Christianity, foreign dominance in North China
- attacked foreigners and Chinese christians
- sieged foreign legations in Beijing
- Western support for Hundred Day Reform swayed Chinese government support for siege
- 8 countries joint force to occupy Beijing - liberate embassy zone
- no declaration of war
- southern provinces reached individual agreements
1901 Boxer Protocol
indemnity - 450 million taels of fine silver - retuned to support education in China
1904-05 Russo-Japanese War
- Russian occupation of Manchuria during Boxer Rebellion
- Japan sought Russian expulsion - KOR, MAN
- Japanese victory - signs of Total War (nationwide mobilisation)
- Russian recognition of exclusive Japanese influence in KOR, South MAN, cession of 1/2 Sakhalin Island
- Influences: 7 month route of Russian fleet, purchase of Japanese war bond by Jewish Americans
1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance
- common interests in China and Korea against Germany and Russia
- Japan-Russia direct conflict of interest
- German-Russian temporary alliance - shared interests in Europe
Treaties involved in Japanese Annexation of Korea
- 1904 Japan-Korea Treaty - KOR obliged to assist Japan in war
- 1904 Japan-Korea Agreement - consultation before signing international treaties
- 1905 Japan-Korea Treaty - protectorate of Japan - no diplomatic sovereignty
- 1907 Japan-Korea Treaty - guidance of Japanese resident general on domestic affairs
- 1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty - formal annexation, noble status of royal family preserved
1921 Four Power Treaty
US, JAP, UK, FRA
1. respect status quo in Pacific
2. do not seek expansion
3. superseded 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance