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editPlease strike territorial integrity and sovereinty from use in this article. The Open Door Policy's intention had nothing to do with sovereignty and territorial integrity, lol! The U.S. and Japan had ambitions in China which would NOT have resulted in sovereignty or territorial integrity :) The spirit of such and consecutive agreements was to determine the fate of China and at the same time considering all power players interested in the country. The open Door policy and other agreements were temporary reprieves from outright competition to determine whom was accorded controlling interests.
As a result of Japan's diplomacy around the time of WWI and the threat of the U.S. losing the ability to gain more interests in China, President Wilson reacted by
"encouraging financiers to enter China and even calculating the value of a token military force as a means for a sharper and more systematic influence in East Asia (Page 253)." - "The Search For Order: 1877-1920. Robert H. Wiebe
17:23, 24 February 2008 (UTC)~Collective Conscious