CHINA AND JAPAN

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CHINA AND JAPAN
The U.S. has consistently been entranced by the
possibility of selling to a large Chinese market,
while at the same time eschewing territorial
colonization in China. The result was the Open
Door policy, which aimed at giving all white
foreigners an equal economic playing field in
China. U.S. (and other foreign powers) policy in
China was conducted almost exclusively with
European powers and Japan the Chinese were
rarely considered or consulted.
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CHINA AND JAPAN
With the opening of Japan and the Meiji
Restoration, Japan quickly became a major power
in Asia and the Pacific, rivaling American and
European power. Despite, their general beliefs in
the superiority of the white race, the U.S. and
the European powers quickly realized that Japan
had to be treated as an equal in Asia, given its
military and economic strength and its interest
in territorial and economic colonization.
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Caleb Cushing 1844
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We do not admit the right of a nation of people
to exclude themselves and their country from
intercourse with the rest of the world. --U.S.
merchant statement
TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE MEIJI RESTORATION
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Millard Filmore
Daniel Webster
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Townsend Harris
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Burlingame Treaty 1868
Anson Burlingame
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Ulysses S. Grant
Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt
Horace Allen
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STUDENT VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT
The Evangelicalization of the World in This
Generation!
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William McKinley
John Hay
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Taft-Katsura Agreement, 1905
William Howard Taft
Katsura Toro
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E. H. Harriman
Willard Straight
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Root-Takahira Agreement, 1908
Elihu Root
Takahira Kogoro
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William Howard Taft
Philander Knox
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Lansing-Ishii Agreement, 1917
Kikujiro Ishii
Robert Lansing