Cushing's Treaty

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CUSHING'S TREATY

CUSHING'S TREATY (3 July 1844), also known as the Treaty of Wanghia, marked the opening of political relations between the United States and China and, through establishment of the most-favored-nation doctrine in matters of commerce, secured for Americans the trading privileges won by England as a result of the Opium War. It introduced the principle of extraterritoriality in the relations between China and the West. Provision was made that citizens of the United States accused of committing any crime in China should be tried only by their own consul under American law and that disputes between American citizens in China should be regulated by their own government.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cohen, Warren I. America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations. 4th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Hunt, Michael H. The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

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See alsoChina, Relations with ; China Trade ; Extraterritoriality, Right of ; Treaties with Foreign Nations .