V. The Modern Period, 1789–1914 > E. East Asia, 1793–1914 > 1. China, 1796–1914 > 1896, May 23
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1896, May 23
 
An Anglo-German loan (16 million pounds for 36 years at 5 percent interest, secured by the customs revenues) was extended to China.  1
 
June 3
 
A Russo-Chinese treaty was secretly concluded at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II (1868–1918) at Moscow by Li Hongzhang. In return for a defensive alliance for 15 years, China granted Russia the right to build and operate the Chinese Eastern Railway across northern Manchuria, as a link in the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok.  2
 
July 21
 
A commercial treaty with Japan, imposed as part of the peace settlement, gave Japan most-favored-nation status and granted all the treaty powers the right to operate industrial enterprises in the treaty ports.  3
 
 
 
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