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A 1912 newspaper cartoon highlighting the United States' influence in Latin America following the Monroe Doctrine A French political cartoon in 1898, China – the cake of Kings and Emperors, showing Queen Victoria of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Marianne of France and Japanese Emperor Meiji dividing China ruled by Emperor Guangxu.
The term Sinosphere is derived from Sino-'China' (cf. Sinophone) + -sphere, in the sense of the sphere of influence under the influence of a country. [26] The CJK languages—Chinese, Japanese, Korean—each use cognate terms to translate English sphere: Chinese quān (圈; 'circle', 'ring', 'pen')
The Scramble for China, [1] also known as the Partition of China [2] or the Scramble for Concessions, [3] was a concept that existed during the late 1890s in Europe, the United States, and the Empire of Japan for the partitioning of China under the Qing dynasty as their own spheres of influence, during the era of "New Imperialism", following ...
China continued to be divided up into these spheres until the United States, which had no sphere of influence, grew alarmed at the possibility of its businessmen being excluded from Chinese markets. In 1899, Secretary of State John Hay asked the major powers to agree to a policy of equal trading privileges.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is serious about trying to acquire Greenland, both to expand America's sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere and as a way to cement his legacy, according ...
The EU struck a major investment deal with China at the end of 2020, but then froze that deal in 2021 due to China’s severe treatment of its Uyghur minority, which has included numerous human ...
In 1905–1907 Japan made overtures to enlarge its sphere of influence to include Fujian. Japan was trying to obtain French loans and also avoid the Open Door Policy. Paris provided loans on condition that Japan respect the Open Door principles and not violate China's territorial integrity. [13]
In May 2019, the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force added a unit aimed at countering China's political influence in the U.S. China "understands that U.S. state and local leaders enjoy a degree of ...