{"id":783,"date":"2014-09-24T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=783"},"modified":"2014-09-26T15:52:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T14:52:43","slug":"chinas-problem-at-the-outbreak-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s problems at the outbreak of war: No 1. Spheres of Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China, at the outbreak of war, was effectively controlled (in large part) by five greet powers, Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Japan, through what was known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/287778\/sphere-of-influence\" target=\"_blank\"><em>spheres of influence<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Within these spheres the respective nations held sway, and even the Chinese government could not enforce its own laws if push came to shove.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-784\" src=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-470x411.png\" alt=\"Spehres of Influence\" width=\"470\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-470x411.png 470w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-1024x896.png 1024w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-148x129.png 148w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-31x27.png 31w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-38x33.png 38w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-245x215.png 245w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-700x612.png 700w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-24x21.png 24w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-36x31.png 36w, https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Spehres-of-Influence-48x42.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This map shows the situation at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911). Mongolia was part of China at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, at the outbreak of war, was effectively controlled (in large part) by five greet powers, Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Japan, through what was known as spheres of influence. \u00a0Within these spheres the respective nations held sway, and even the Chinese government could not enforce its own laws if push came to shove. &nbsp; &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=783\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-context","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}