Im Brie
  Chapter 5

            Hello I am the Open Door Policy I have been accepted and turned down but in the end the U.S. wouldn’t give up on me. It started along time ago when John Hay saw the need to make a policy so that all nations had the same rights to China for trade and goods.  The U.S. saw that European and Japan powers had already taken a part of china which scared the U.S. into wanting some of china too.

             I was passed from nation to nation seeing all the different places and how they reacted to me.  I knew why the U.S. wanted me to be a policy.  They saw how much resources china had and how much money they could get from cash crops.  Also the trade was amazing they were very close to trade with others.  The sad thing is that I almost never existed. Finally, in July 1900, all the nations agreed to me.  I stated that each nation had the same open freeness to China and no nation would be turned down.

            China also liked this because all the nations were coming to share there different ideas.  China saw it as a good thing all the many varieties.  But, soon it didn’t turn out so good.  Many nations didn’t fall through with me (open door policy) and wanted China all to themselves.

            So as I can remember the U.S. turned out to me very helpful in protecting China.  As the U.S. saw the need to go to china to protect there interests they actually helped protect China to.  As the many years went by Japan was still the prime Nation that wanted to take over China and were the ones that were breaking me the open door policy.

 Through 1894-1895 the U.S. Marines were stationed at Tientsin protecting the purposes of the Sino-Japanese war.  There purpose was to make sure that in the end the United States had some part of china.  But in this process they were also protecting china from being destroyed. 

As the years went by I witnessed the U.S. in China very often always there to make sure not one nation would take China over for good.  I feel like two major moves the United States did, are what finally made China realize that America was a good thing to have around.  In 1900 on May 24 to September 28 American troops helped out in the Boxer rising at Peking.  Then, the U.S. kept a permanent group of men there to protect China when the time was needed.

Chinas eyes were finally open to America when the U.S. came in and fought Japan in 1941.  I saw Japan come in and start to fight China, knowing that it would end badly.  I was so thrilled when the U.S. came in and fought and won Japan making sure the Open Door Policy would never be destroyed.  So I feel that from that day one America had an influence on China, them knowing that they were there to protect them when they need it.  SO I am happy to say that because of the U.S. I the Open Door Policy stayed alive!!!!!

 

           
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