Spheres+of+Influence


Spheres of influence  are areas or regions over which a state or organization has significant cultural, economic, military or political influence. France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and Russia were involved with the spheres of influence in China around 1895. This guaranteed specific trading privileges to each nation within its respective sphere, and the different nations could have control over more than one sphere. Around 1899, the United States began an "Open Door Policy." This policy stated that:  The Open Door Policy limited the powers of foreign nations if they had more than one sphere of influence to make it more equal. However even though this policy and the spheres of influence gave foreign nations more power and control over China, the Chinese began to get angry at these nations and wanted to take action to stop the imperialism into their country. Unfortunately these results of the Opium War caused the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
 * Every nation should get equal trading rights.
 * China should not be separated.

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Image from GoogleImages.com Information from book Heren, Louis. //China's Three Thousand Years//. Macmillan Publishing Co. 1974.