China to Name National Defense Education Day, XINHUA From: Xinhua (China) | Date: April 24, 2001 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Xinhua (China)
04-24-2001
BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese legislature is considering a
law naming September 7, the date when China was forced to sign a humiliating
treaty with 11 foreign powers 100 years ago, the Day of National Defense
Education.
The draft Law on National Defense Education is scheduled to be put to
the vote on Saturday at the Standing Committee of the National People's
Congress.
The Peace Treaty of 1901, also known as the Boxer Protocol, which the
Qing Dynasty was forced to sign by the foreign powers in 1901, turned China
into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society.
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