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  • 5 - The Problem of Equality

  • from Part II - Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921
  • Ryan Martínez Mitchell, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Book:
    Recentering the World
    Published online:
    27 October 2022
    Print publication:
    03 November 2022, pp 98-120

  • Summary

    The final discrediting of the Manchu regime’s traditionalism sparked a range of new efforts in domestic and also foreign policy, and fostered an embrace of international law as a vocabulary for the articulation of state interests and “rights” that would continually intensify across successive governments. From this point forward, Chinese positions on public law issues at the international and domestic levels would be closely related. This phenomenon was perhaps most strikingly illustrated in the often-overlooked but crucial Chinese role at the Second Hague Conference of 1907, where for the first time China’s delegates joined other marginalized states of the “Global South” to resist initiatives by great powers.