Beiyang reactionaries

Then there is the United States.

Duan Xun really made a lot of concessions.Opened up more commercial cities, allowing American capital to invest and build factories in these cities.

The United States likes China's statement very much.After the end of World War I, the United States originally thought that it was time for the United States to expand its ambitions in the world.Unexpectedly, during the Paris peace conference, it was pushed back by Britain and France.Britain and France did not take the newly rising United States seriously, which embarrassed the United States a lot.It made the United States very embarrassing, so he has been trying to regain the situation.

I want to make efforts in the Far East.

It's just that Japan has been competing with the United States for hegemony in the Far East before, and the relationship between China and Japan was good at that time, so the United States could not intervene.Therefore, isolationism prevails in the United States, and the United States decided to wait quietly in the Americas.

it's good now.

After China and Japan turned their faces, China has been looking for foreign aid.Whether it was the Soviet Union or Germany that I was looking for before, neither of them has much weight in the world at present.Therefore, China has found the United States and is willing to strengthen relations with the United States.This is a good thing for the United States and cannot be better.

Because of China's cooperation, the United States can regain its hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region.

On September 1924, 9, China and the United States officially signed the "Sino-US Commercial Treaty", and then issued the "China Washington Statement" in Washington.

The content of the statement is very simple. First, it states that China and the United States are friendly countries and will strengthen more cooperation.

Immediately afterwards, both China and the United States made three promises to each other.

China’s promise is that China will open up more cities as commercial cities, open [-] commercial cities within five years, and open all of China to the United States after ten years.These open cities and regions allow American capital to invest and build factories. China will treat these American companies equally and give them the same conditions as Chinese companies.Allow U.S. merchant ships to dock at Chinese ports.This wharf includes all wharves along the Yangtze River.Commitment to use the U.S. dollar as the trade currency in Sino-US trade, as well as in trade between China and North and South American countries.

The United States' commitment to China is to support China's sovereignty over China's customs, especially the autonomy of tariffs.There is no policy that will not interfere with any Chinese customs, and respect any decision made by Chinese customs.We are willing to cancel the consular jurisdiction of the United States in China, and promise that American citizens in China, American companies in China, and American institutions in China, including hospitals, schools, and churches built by the United States in China, will abide by Chinese laws.Support any efforts made by China to abolish the concessions and respect China's sovereignty.

Of course, these are all commitments in the "China-US Washington Statement".

There are many specific clauses in the "Sino-US Commercial Treaty".

U.S. capital dare not say that it is cheering, but it has also begun to set its sights on the far east.Many trading companies that conduct Sino-US trade are even more excited.Because with the signing of this treaty, they can directly snatch the business of British and Japanese businessmen.The United States is the country with the largest trade with China, but more than half of the trade between China and the United States has to go through the trading companies of Britain, France and Japan.But with the signing of this treaty, American trading companies can directly participate in Sino-US trade.

Duan Xun's promise is valid.

The day after the treaty was signed, the China Tung Oil Chamber of Commerce began negotiating with American trading companies.Originally, there was a monopoly agreement on the export of tung oil between China and Japan.All tung oil exports from China are handled by Japanese trading companies.However, after the war between China and Japan in 1923, these contracts were abolished.

This time, the China Tung Oil Chamber of Commerce began direct negotiations with American trading companies.

Without the Japanese trading company as an intermediary, both China and the United States have made a lot of money.The price of tung oil exported from China has risen a little, and the tariff has risen a little, and the inside and outside earn tens of millions of yuan a year.

The same is true for the United States.

Although the price of tung oil sold in China is higher and the tariff is higher, it is still much cheaper than buying it from Japanese merchants in the United States.More importantly, for such an important raw material as tung oil, the United States will no longer have to look at Japan's face in the future.

Both China and the United States are happy.

Originally, American businessmen wanted monopoly rights, just like Japan did back then.

But China did not agree.

Because China's tung oil has to be sold to the Soviet Union and Germany.But China guarantees that it will take the lead in ensuring the needs of the United States.With the signing of the tung oil agreement, other agreements between China and the United States have also begun to be signed one after another.

"Prime Minister, news from London. Britain is willing to give up the concession and disband the Ministry of Industry."

pressure.

The United States has suddenly signed so many contracts with China, and there is a tendency to return to the Far East and dominate the Chinese market.This made London very anxious.

Yes.

China is weak, and Britain looks down on China.

So make things difficult for China in the negotiations.But even if China is weak, the current annual trade volume between China and the UK is more than 4000 million pounds, or nearly [-] million US dollars.

This is not a small amount.

Especially in recent years, the scale of China's purchase of machinery and equipment from abroad has become larger and larger.After entering 1924, China purchased more machines and equipment.

But it is mainly purchased from Germany.

After China entered 1924, the number of machinery and equipment purchased from Germany was astonishing.Now only in September, the trade volume between China and Germany has exceeded [-] million US dollars.

According to the current situation, Sino-German trade will soon replace Sino-British trade and become the second largest country after Sino-US trade.

Of course Britain is in a hurry.

The UK also wants a piece of the pie.

Moreover, Britain does not want the United States to expand its power in the Far East.Coupled with China's increasingly tough attitude, British businessmen are complaining about London's policy.

Criticism is getting louder.

The businessmen who criticized were not just British businessmen who had suffered heavy losses in China.There are also many Chinese businessmen doing business in Asia.Because the meaning of those businessmen is very simple, because of London's slowness, China has pulled the United States to Asia.

America, that's a ferocious beast.

Especially in industry.

In 1923, the proportion of British exports in the world had dropped from 20% to 13.7%, while at this time Germany was 12.9% and the United States was 12.8%.After the start of the First World War, the entire European industrial country fought to the death, causing the industrial strength of the United States to increase rapidly.

At present, the export value of the United States in the world has reached 20%.

Originally, the United States had little strength in Asia, except for a colony of the Philippines, it basically could not exert much influence.The Far East has always been the territory of Britain, France and Japan.But as China turns to the United States, the strength of the United States in Asia will greatly increase.

This not only compresses the interests of those British businessmen in China, but also greatly affects the business of those British businessmen in Asia.The Americans use China as their production base, which may overwhelm all those British businessmen.

London couldn't stand it.

"it is good."

Duan Xun breathed a sigh of relief.

If you don't put any pressure on them, they really regard China as a country to bully at will.

Of course, Duan Xun also has a lot of worries.This time, I brought in the ferocious beast of the United States, which severely suppressed Britain's influence in the Far East and influenced Japan's interests.

Maybe the "British-Japanese alliance" will reappear.

Moreover, the coming of the United States to the Far East will intensify the tension in the Far East.But Duan Xun can't help it. If the Far East is going to be chaotic, the more powerful countries come to participate, the more everyone will have more scruples.

Duan Xun needs time now.

It takes time to develop.

"Talk, reach an agreement with Britain as soon as possible to cancel the damn concession. Then use this as a model to negotiate with France, Italy, and Belgium. I hope that our country can completely cancel it next year."

"Yes."

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