Anglo-Chinese Commerce And Diplomacy : Mainly in the Nineteenth Century
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Sir Frederick Bruce found it necessary to warn our Consular representatives and naval officers that local pressure could no longer be tolerated except in extreme cases ; mere infractions of the treaty, as the exaction of un- authorized customs duties, were matters for diplomacy at Peking, not for coercion on the spot. So long as 144 THE INTERPRETATION OF THE TREATY the Peking Government refused to recognize foreign Powers, it was necessary to punish breaches of treaty by employing force against... the immediate offenders ; in consequence, foreigners had learnt to despise the Chinese Executive, and to consider that their security depended on its weakness. By the constitution of the Foreign Board it had recognized its obligations ; our aim was now to strengthen the Executive, and to urge it to assert its authority over the local officials, and to undertake its proper responsibilities. In other words, we were attempting to induce the Chinese to adopt western ideas as to the subordination of local to central authority.
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