what was china's relationship with the U.S during World war 1 and what is china's relationship with the U.S now?

a nice google search would be helpful there! ;-)

hey! i can help you because we're studying world war I right now. oh wait. i dont know their relationship during world war I, i only know their whole relationship before the war during imperialism. would that help?

well i need help on the years from 1887 to 1919

um.. okay this is all gonna be before the war. like just before it.

um... well i'll give you all the info i know and you can pick out whatever you need.

okay, in the early years of imperialism, Caleb Cushing opened trade with China... following the Turner Thesis (an idea by Fredrick Jackson Turner that America's restless engergy should be refocused onto overseas trade expansion) in 1843.

Later on in 1899, Secretary of State John Hay drafted the Open Door Notesfor the Open Door Policy thing. The open door policy was saying that we wanted China for trade and that we wanted them to convert to Christianity (this was following reverend josiah strong's theory..he believed that "survival of the fittest" applied to races, and whites were the strongest, therefore it was their right to "civilize" everyone else).

Well anyway China was divided into "spheres of influence" among Russia, Japan, Great Britain, France, and Germany leaving nothing for US. Of course it bothered the US because the US were greedy and selfish so they found some way to get into china. This is where the open door notes come in. The open door notes drafted by Hay as i mentioned earlier called for:

-all chinese ports open to all nation
-chinese collect tariffs and duties/not foreigners
-equality tariffs, railroad and harbor rates in all spheres

he sent these to all the countries but no one responded so Hay took that as an okay, seeing that no on formally rejected it.

um... the Boxer Rebellion was a "fists of righteous harmony" rebellion launched in the British sector of China. Several nations includind the US sent troops to put the rebellion down....and um that led to every country signing the open door notes. im still kinda unsure about the boxer rebellion so you may want to look up more on that...

but basically, we kinda helped china out in many different ways even though we kinda invaded their country and took advantage of the trading system and the railroad system as well, i think.

but um yea, if you're unclear or confused about some of the information i gave, just ask and maybe i can clear it up.

didnt liek chinese immagrants come and build railroads? oh well iunno
i'm only good at worldwar 2.


and we're only like learning the industrial revolution

the current relationship is a love and hate thing..

um, u can pick up Iris Chang's "The Chinese in America" and she summarizes the relationships pretty well.. and it's all nicely divided up into chapters so it's quite easy to find

not sure about WWI but i know that now, china nd usa relationship seems kinda tense to me. theres lotsa concern about how china replaced the usa as the world's leading consumer, and how last year (or was it the year before?) china put their first person into space, and a third world power jumped into the space race. i also think that the whole 'chinas-building-up-their-military' thing isnt too popular either.....but then enter taiwan and north korea and its just a bunch of frickin corrupted politics

sorry if i confused you

wikipedia.org is pretty helpful for the history part.
also, i think that the usa has something to do with the relationship with china and taiwan. i forgot exactly what it was about.

i think it was the 60s (maybe 70s.. it's pre-nixon though) when US signed a treaty with taiwan to protect it in case communist china attacks.. cuz u know how US was into that whole McCarthyism thing.. and becuz taiwan's economy has been so powerful in the past, US was happy and glad to help taiwan out.. but today china's economy is raising so fast, it's impossible for US to ignore them.. and of course kiss their ass.. it's sorta like the whole "keep ur friends close but ur enemies closer" type of thing though.. cuz US doesn't want China to grow too big and supercede US's domination in the global economy..