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matter of securing or maintaining special
privileges for British subjects in China.
with
The latter is concerned in settling what
persons shall be regarded as British subjects
(or British protected persons) in China, and
both
accordingly entitled to extraterritoriality
privileges and to the ordinary rights of
British subjects abroad. There are considerable
advantages in keeping these two subjects separate.
It might, in fact, be definitely disadvantageous
to link them together. If this were done,
the Chinese Government might claim that any
special arrangement
concluded in connection
with the protection of Anglo-Chinese
should terminate with extraterritoriality,
whereas the problem of determining what persons
shall be regarded as British subjects or British
protected persons will continue as long as
there are persons of Chinese race enjoying
British nationality or the status of
British protected persons.
3.
It is not, therefore, considered
desirable