No Open Door Policy In China

[Doraemon]

So, what would have happened if there was no US Open Door policy in 1898? Would China have been divided up as in Africa and Southwest Asia, or was this inevitable with the political situation then?

[Hawkeye]

A single Chinese province would have been too much for a European colonial power. The population of this Chinese colony would have outnumbered the occupying force. And that is just a piece of the iceberg for the colonialists wouldn’t be facing just the population of the colony but all of China which they've had their own version of nationalism a lot longer then Europeans had theirs.

And finally Europe did not want to cut up China into pieces. The British, French, Russians, and Germans (and Japanese, but I think calling Japan a European nation, well you get the idea) were content with having spheres of influence. I think it was because things were more profitable this way.

[Doraemon]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

A single Chinese province would have been too much for a European colonial power. The population of this Chinese colony would have outnumbered the occupying force. And that is just a piece of the iceberg for the colonialists wouldn’t be facing just the population of the colony but all of China which they've had their own version of nationalism a lot longer then Europeans had theirs.

And finally Europe did not want to cut up China into pieces. The British, French, Russians, and Germans (and Japanese, but I think calling Japan a European nation, well you get the idea) were content with having spheres of influence. I think it was because things were more profitable this way.

Well India itself was much larger than a Chinese province and almost comparable to China itself, but Britain managed it pretty well for a few centuries.

[Ridwan Asher]

Originally Posted by Emperor Akahito

Well India itself was much larger than a Chinese province and almost comparable to China itself, but Britain managed it pretty well for a few centuries.

Well there was the factor of political and administrative disunity in India for the British to exploit, for one thing.