Extraterritoriality

Extraterritoriality in China: At the end of the Opium War in 1842, the Chinese government signed the peace treaty named the Treaty of Nanjing, which gave control of the island of Hong Kong to the British. The British government in China already enjoyed some of the benefits of extraterritoriality such as British consuls having some jurisdiction over crimes committed by British people as given to them by the Bogue Convention of 1843. The Americans, however, did not have this freedom, and wanted to obtain it. On July 3, 1844 Caleb Cushing, an American official, negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia. This treaty gave Americans the right to act with absolute extraterritoriality. It also gave other foreigners, along with the Americans, extraterritoriality at Guanazhou and four other major Chinese ports. This angered the Chinese people, who had begun to hate foreigners even more than they used to.   Google Images

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