1844 years Wangxia Treaty
USINFO | 2013-10-24 13:14

 

Wangxia Treaty
1844 years 7 months, the United States and Britain signed that the "Nanjing Treaty", the people coming, Rep. Cushing (Congressman Caleb Cushing) was appointed as the first President Taylor on behalf of the Chinese, and Qing Wang Ha Tsuen in Macao signed the "Treaty of Wangxia", also known as the "five trade regulations", is the first between China and the unequal treaties.

The Treaty of thirty-four that the United States and the United Kingdom enjoy the same one-sided MFN, but in the future China to other countries if favorable, the United States enjoy the same one .Wangxia Treaty says:
(1) Americans are not subject to Chinese jurisdiction. Americans in China crime, only the United States Embassy officials entitled under U.S. law to arrest, trial and punishment of the crime.
(2) U.S. warships free access to Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, Shanghai and other five treaty ports. Americans buy real estate in the five treaty ports, built churches, hospitals and cemeteries.
(3) repeal ban foreigners to learn Chinese words specified.
(4) prohibits trafficking in opium.
(5) Section 34 of agreement: 12 years after the treaty may be amended and discretion. This entry become the Second Opium War and the Beginning.

"Wangxia Treaty" total destruction of China's territorial sovereignty, sovereign judicial sovereignty and tariffs, it is more than the Treaty of Nanjing Britain integrity of a future Sino-French treaties and other unequal treaties Huangpu template. But ironically, free foreign trade, but also to the five city's rapid economic development has become today the most developed cities in China business.

Hundred years later, with the development of international situation, China and the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union hand against Japan and Germany to become the Allies of World War II, and in 1942 was 1 January led with 26 countries, signed in Washington, "the United Nations House Joint Declaration " Proclamation of United Nations Charter and Statute of the International Court of Justice . Chiang wrote in his diary, "sign in the joint declaration of President Roosevelt special pair wen said: Welcome to China as one of the semi-finals. Remark heard of it, but there is nothing ashamed anxiety. Joint declaration published over twenty belligerent After the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union four countries have become the center of aggression, so as the semi-finals by one of our State's reputation and standing, in fact, unprecedented in the history of the increase. "

1943 January 11 , China and the United States, the United Kingdom signed the "Sino-US New Testament", "Sino-British New Testament." The abolition of a century "unequal treaties" concluded powers for centuries in China's consular jurisdiction, the Special Court for rights treaty ports, embassies, and some military power along the railway in the coastal trade and inland navigation rights and other privileges, "Rise humiliation, washed in 1-day ".

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