Treaty of Whampoa
Sino-French relations
Also known as: Treaty of Huangpu
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example of unequal treaty
- In unequal treaty
…the United States and the Treaty of Whampoa with France (both 1844). Each additional treaty expanded upon the rights of extraterritoriality, and, as a result, the foreigners obtained an independent legal, judicial, police, and taxation system within the treaty ports.
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place in Chinese history
- In China: The first Opium War and its aftermath
…States and in October the Treaty of Whampoa (Huangpu) with France. These arrangements made up a complex of foreign privileges by virtue of the most-favored-nation clauses (guaranteeing trading equality) conceded to every signatory. All in all, they provided a basis for later inroads such as the loss of tariff autonomy,…
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