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| 1896, May 23 |
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| An Anglo-German loan (16 million pounds for 36 years at 5 percent interest, secured by the customs revenues) was extended to China. | 1 |
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| June 3 |
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| 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 |
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| July 21 |
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| 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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