History, about china Options

[X-Zeifer]

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

[smilz2dasun]

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.