Tientsin French-Chinese Treaty of 1885

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Tientsin French-Chinese Treaty of 1885

 

a pact signed in Tientsin on June 9 in the wake of the Sino-French War of 1884–85. After the Chinese government, admitting defeat, pledged to withdraw its forces from Vietnam, a convention established the demarcation line between the Ch’ing Empire and the new French possessions in Indochina. Under the French-Chinese Treaty, France received trade concessions in the Chinese regions bordering Vietnam that ultimately enabled it to make economic inroads in China.

REFERENCE

Grimm, E. D. Sbornik dogovorov i drugikh dokumentov po istorii mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii na Dal’nem Vostoke (1842–1925). Moscow, 1927.

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