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of Chinese territory, though encumbered with certain
restrictions in regard to the exercise of administrative
rights therein by the territorial sovereign. They are creatures of compact different from cession in fact and
in law".
regarding extraterritoriality
at these Conferences
were
Although the demands/were unsuccessful the foundations clearly laid for future Chinese challenges to extraterritorial,
rights granted by "unequal treaties". The important distinction between cessions and leases suggested an accession
to the former but a demand for "readjustment" of the latter
along with the issues regarding extraterritoriality.
13.
a
The specific contention over extraterritorial rights was finally removed by treaty concluded between China and Britain on 11 January 1943
The British Government had taken the decision to revise
extraterritorial rights in China as early as June 1931.
Agreement was then reached on a ten-year transition period
for the eventual abolition of British extraterritoriality,
concessions, settlements, legation quarters, and the right
to station British warships in Chinese waters and British
troops on Chinese soil. Progress on the relinquishing of
these rights, however, was delayed by the Japanese invasion
and occupation of parts of China. The Chinese Government
then welcomed the British presence.
14. With the entry of the Allied Powers into the war
against Japan, it became all the more important for Britain
to ensure the recognition of China as an equal and an ally. The treaty between Britain and China signed in Chongching (Chungking) on 11 January 1943 relinquished all of Britain's /extraterritorial
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