Beiyang reactionaries

"Prime Minister, we will discuss and formulate this aspect as soon as possible."

"Also, in terms of foreign investment, industrial investment is strongly supported. However, the financial aspect must be strictly controlled, and absolutely no openings are allowed. Financial reforms and currency reforms must be steadily advanced."

"Yes."

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"Sir, news from Washington."

After Ford and General Motors reached agreements with China one after another to set up Asian factories in China, the trade negotiations between China and the United States also made rapid progress.

The negotiations between China and the United States have also attracted the attention of many people.

They are all people with interests in China.

Countries including the UK and Japan are paying attention.Although Britain's influence in China is constantly fading, a lean camel is bigger than a horse.They still have a lot of interests in China.

Therefore, we are also very concerned about the negotiations between China and the United States.

The news from Washington quickly spread to London and then to Beijing.

"Open so many cities?"

Mike took the telegram and took a deep breath after reading the beginning.

why?

Because China is preparing to continue to open its cities to the United States as a Sino-US trading city.Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, China has opened up step by step, setting its own cities as treaty ports.

However, most commercial cities are either cities near the sea or cities along the Yangtze River.

And these cities are now the most developed places in China.

In fact, these commercial cities in China, the UK is the biggest booster.Because of the commercial cities in China, in the early years, Britain attacked China, oppressed China, and let China open these cities.

But this time is different.

This time, China took the initiative to open up its trading cities, allowing American capital to do business in these cities and invest and set up companies in these cities.Compared with other cities, commercial cities have much more open conditions.And it will give American businessmen huge preferential conditions.Although there are many restrictions, compared with businessmen from other countries, the conditions will be much better.

"Sir, China has even opened up many inland cities to the United States."

"Yes."

Mark's face was ugly.

How difficult it was for Britain to force China to open up those trading cities before, but this time China directly gave the United States so many benefits.The United States is a late-developed country in the world.

In the Far East, China is even a latecomer.

When the United States has enough strength to develop its influence in China, it finds that China has long been divided up by the major powers.Russia is in Xinjiang, Mongolia, and the Northeast, Japan is in the Northeast, Germany is in Shandong, Britain is in Xinjiang, Tibet, and the provinces along the Yangtze River, France is in the Southwest, and other European powers also have their own territory.

So the United States made a request at that time.

"Open door" policy.

I hope that everyone will not divide the sphere of influence, and everyone will develop this part of China together.But the United States thinks very well, but why should the big powers agree to you.Therefore, although they said they supported the "open door" when expressing their stance, in fact, no one responded to the United States.The original sphere of influence is still everyone's sphere of influence, and they cooperate to exclude the United States.

Embarrassing for America.

Its influence in China is limited.

Not to mention anything else, just look at China's exports.The United States is the world's largest industrial country, and it is also the country with the largest market in the world.The United States is the largest importer of China's tung oil, bristles, antimony ore, and tungsten ore. Almost 80.00% of these exports will go to the United States.But no American businessman has been able to get involved in these businesses.

These businesses were monopolized by British, French and Japanese businessmen, and then resold to the United States.

But look this time.

China has listed so many cities as trading cities, and they are trading cities dedicated to the United States.There are also many inland cities, which are completely deep in the hinterland.This time, the strength of American capital in China has greatly increased.

Mike was angry.

The United States has really picked up a big deal.

But he held his temper and continued to look down.But the more I watched, the more angry I became, I couldn't help but pat the table and said, "Damn, damn Chinese. Are they going to join the United States directly?"

Why are you so angry.

Because going down, China is making more and more concessions to the United States.

China promises that materials exported from China to the United States are willing to trade directly with the United States.Instead of being like before, these export trades were completely monopolized by British, French and Japanese businessmen.

American businessmen can directly set up trading companies in China, and then trade these materials with China.

"The Chinese are crazy, really crazy."

Mack was really furious.

China exports a lot of things to the United States every year, and of course they are some raw materials.But don't look at just raw materials, China's annual exports to the United States are worth about [-] million U.S. dollars.

At present, China's annual export volume is more than [-] million US dollars, and the US alone accounts for half of the share.

Now we want to trade directly with the United States, so the middleman is gone.Businessmen from countries such as Britain, France and Japan will be hurt, of course mainly British and Japanese businessmen.

Because most of these businesses were controlled by British and Japanese businessmen in the past.

Japanese businessmen are currently in a badly weakened state in China and do not have much strength.Therefore, when China and the United States do business directly, it is mainly British businessmen who are hit.

It turns out that the import and export volume between China and the United States is about [-] million U.S. dollars, and British businessmen earn a lot of money as middlemen.

But if this profit is gone, how many British trading companies will be hit.Of course, without middlemen, both China and the United States will make a lot of money.Regardless of the fact that the export of these materials from China is about 50 million US dollars, the purchase of these materials from the United States will cost double the price.After removing freight, customs duties, etc., the middleman can still earn [-]% of the profit.

So without middlemen, China can earn more money, and the United States can also buy these materials at a lower price.

"Sir, what should we do now? According to the intelligence from Washington, the negotiations between China and the United States have come to an end, and the two countries will soon sign the 'Sino-US Trade Treaty'."

"Those fools in London."

Mike couldn't help complaining.

After thinking about it, he became even angrier: "James (Ramsay McDonald) is an idiot, his eyes are only on Europe, the Soviet Union and Germany. But he can't see the situation in the Far East. Stop Singapore's military The base plan and negotiations with China have been grinding, causing the empire's influence in the Far East to decline rapidly. It also wasted a great opportunity, really a waste of a great opportunity. If an agreement was reached with China early, these conditions would all be empires of."

Mike was really angry.

Ramsay Macdonald, the new British Prime Minister, has no weight in McLean.Mack class is directly calling Macdonald a fool.

Can't help being angry.

Markle is the British Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to China, and he is also an important person in charge of the British Far East.The current situation in the Far East is changing three times a day.