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Anglo Chinese. In past negotiations
with the Chinese authorities, the
two questions of extraterritoriality
and the protection to Anglo-Chinese have
been kept separate. The former is a
matter of securing or maintaining special
privileges for British subjects in China,
the latter is concerned in settling what
persons shall be regarded as British subjects
(or British-protected persons) in China,
and accordingly entitled both to extraterritoriality
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privileges and the ordinary rights of
British subjects abroad. It appears to
r. Thomas that there are considerable
advantages