Chapter 45 : The Yihequan - Race War in the Far East Portuguese explorers were the first Whites to arrive by sea in China, landing in 1514. By 1557, they had acquired a trading station at Macau and by 1570, trade began between China and Spanish settlements in the Philippines. In 1619, the Dutch settled in Taiwan and took possession of the nearby P'enghu Islands (Pescadores). Soon Jesuit missionaries arrived in China from Europe but failed utterly in their attempts to convert the Chinese who rejected the Christian religion with scorn. British Trade IN OPIUM FROM INDIA China profited admirably from the trading stations, with the British being their biggest customers for the tea trade, paying handsomely in silver. The British then added a new twist to the trade: they started importing opium from India into China as part payment. The use of opium took off like a rocket in China: soon it became a serious issue for the Chinese government, which then instituted measures to try and stop it. In 1839, Chinese officials confiscated and destroyed huge amounts of opium from British ships in the harbor at Guangzhou and applied severe pressures to the British trading community in that city. The British refused to restrict further importation of opium, and the Opium Wars between Britain and China broke out in that same year. The First Opium War 1841-1842 The Chinese were however no match for British military superiority and were badly defeated: the war ended in 1842, after Britain had seized Hong Kong in 1841, Chinkiang in 1842, and threatened Peking itself. In terms of the Treaty of Nanking which ended the war, Hong Kong was ceded to Britain and the right to trade was granted to the British in a number of Chinese towns. During the next two years, both France and the United States extracted similar treaties from China. The Second Opium War 1856 - 1860 Non-performance by China of several important clauses of these treaties led to the outbreak of the Second Opium War which ran from 1856 to 1860. During the course of this war, several dozen Whites were captured by the Chinese, and cruelly tortured and put to death. Filled with avenging rage, a joint British-French expeditionary force advanced to the Chinese capital, Peking, and burned down the famous Summer Palace in direct retaliation for the torturing to death of the White prisoners.
Prostrate under superior White firepower, the Chinese were forced to agree to implement the earlier treaties which, by their provisions, opened Chinese ports to foreign trade and residents and ceded Hong Kong and Kowloon to Britain. White Powers Seize Parts of China Following from the Second Opium War, Russia seized the Chinese provinces of northern Manchuria and the areas north of the Amur River in 1860; and in 1884, a war between the French and the Chinese saw Vietnam brought into the French colonial empire. By 1898, powerless to resist foreign demands, China had been carved into spheres of economic influence. Russia was granted the right to construct a Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Chinese Eastern Railway, across Manchuria to Vladivostok and the South Manchurian Railway south to the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, as well as additional exclusive economic rights throughout Manchuria. Other exclusive rights to railway and mineral development were granted to Germany in Shandong Province, to France in the southern border provinces, to Great Britain in the Yangtze provinces, and to Japan in the southeastern coastal provinces. The Boxer Uprising: Race War in China
The Boxer Uprising was a Chinese nationalist uprising against all Whites in China which took place in 1900. In 1899 a secret society of Chinese called the Yihequan ("Righteous and Harmonious Fists", also called the Boxers), began a campaign of terror against White Christian missionaries in the north-eastern provinces. Although the Boxers were officially denounced, they were secretly supported by many of the Chinese royal court, including the Dowager Empress Cixi. The terrorist activities of the Boxer society gradually increased during 1899, with Boxer bands attacking all Whites on sight. When these bands entered the Chinese capital, Peking, the White powers sent a small armed column to the Chinese capital to protect the few Whites in the city. On 16 June 1900, the Empress Cixi ordered Chinese troops to attack the White army which was still outside Peking. Empress of China Urges CHINESE TO KILL All Whites Then on 18 June 1900, the Empress Cixi publicly called on the Chinese to kill all the Whites they could find. Many Whites were then ruthlessly murdered: large numbers fled into the fortified foreign embassies in the city, including the Japanese embassy which was also targeted. There they were besieged by Chinese mobs. Finally, a combined army consisting of British, French, Russian, German, American and Japanese troops entered Peking on 14 August 1900, relieving the besieged foreign embassies. Peking was then occupied by the White powers for a year until September 1901, when the Chinese signed a peace treaty in terms of which they had to pay a large indemnity and grant the White powers the right to station troops in Peking to safeguard the embassies. This situation remained unaltered right up until the early part of the 20th century, when China was released from some of the more harsh restrictions and the country dissolved into civil war and invasion by Japan. Japan - RESISTS WHITES THROUGH ISOLATION AND THEN ADOPTION OF WHITE TECHNOLOGY The first Europeans to visit Japan were Portuguese traders who had landed on an island near Kyushu about 1543. After this Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch traders visited Japan more and more frequently. The first significant result was the arrival of a Jesuit missionary, Saint Francis Xavier, in 1549, who started preaching Christianity to the locals. He achieved a small measure of success, and by 1549, there were an estimated 150,000 Japanese Christians. Although still a tiny amount in terms of the total Japanese population, the Japanese authorities correctly saw the process as a form of European cultural colonialism, and in 1612, Christian Japanese became the subject of official persecution, and huge numbers were killed, in a reverse parody of the first Christianizing kings in Europe nearly 1000 years earlier. Japanese Isolation Begins
In retaliation, the Japanese government refused permission to the Spanish to land in Japan after 1624. A further series of Japanese edicts in the next decade forbade any Japanese from traveling abroad, and also the building of any large ships. The study of any White literature of any sort was also forbidden. The only Whites permitted to remain in Japan were a small group of Dutch traders restricted to the artificial island of Dejima in the harbor of Nagasaki. Even they were continually subjected to indignities and limitations on their activities. These restrictions were partially lifted in 1720, when the Tokugawa shogun Yoshimune repealed the ban on European books and study. Commander Matthew Perry FORCES JAPAN TO OPEN By the first half of the 19th century, a new problem arose: a number of White American seamen, crew on a number of whalers that had been wrecked on the Japanese coast, were being held prisoner in Japan, which still officially banned any contact with the outside. In 1853, the American government sent a formal mission to the emperor of Japan headed by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who arrived with a squadron of ships. Following extended negotiations, Perry and representatives of the emperor signed a treaty in March 1854, establishing trade relations between the United States and Japan. In 1860, a Japanese embassy was sent to the United States, and two years later Japanese trade missions visited European capitals to negotiate formal agreements. White Firepower AWES JAPANESE The opening of Japan was achieved more through the show of superior force by Western nations than by an actual desire for foreign relations on the part of Japanese leaders. Perry had demonstrated this power by actually firing a cannon from one of his ships into the Japanese coastline, not aimed at any target but just to demonstrate the power of White technological superiority to the Japanese. The Japanese warlords, armed with swords and spears, were overawed at this overwhelming display of White military equipment and dared not, at first, resist. Nevertheless, a militant anti-White faction immediately developed, and attacks on White traders became common in the 1860s, culminating in a series of attacks on White ships in Japanese harbors. An aggressive display of force by a White naval detachment in 1864, once again overawed the Japanese, and thereafter the number of anti-White attacks declined rapidly. Japanese Imitation OF WHITE CULTURE Launched The Japanese then started a pattern for which they were later to become famous: under far-sighted leadership they realized that they stood no chance unless they were to be the technological equals of the White powers. French army officers were paid to enter Japan to remodel the Japanese army; British naval officers were paid to reorganize the Japanese navy; and Dutch engineers supervised the construction of the first major Western style public works and infrastructure on the Japanese island.
Japanese officials were sent abroad to study the infrastructure and workings of White governments and to select their best features for duplication in Japan. A new penal code was modeled on that of France, and a ministry of education was established in 1871 to develop a system of universal education based on that of the United States. This imitation of the White powers extended to every level: in 1884, the Japanese emperor created a peerage, preparing the way for an upper house of parliament; a lower house, elected on a qualified franchise, was also created.
A cabinet modeled on that of Germany was organized in 1885, with a prime minister and a cabinet being created in 1888. The new constitution, drafted after constitutional research in Europe and the United States, was promulgated in 1889. Rapid industrialization, under government direction, accompanied this political growth. Finally, in 1890, Japan completely revised its criminal, civil, and commercial law codes on White European and American models. "White-ized" Japanese Expansion Suitably "White-ized" or Western-ized, Japan once again turned its attention outwards: declaring war on China over possession of Korea, the Japanese army, armed with the latest White weapons, completely massacred the Chinese army and easily occupied Korea. Russia had seized Manchuria from the Chinese following the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, and from there started to invade North Korea step by step. In 1904, Japan broke off diplomatic relations with Russia over the matter and, once again using their French, German and British designed weapons, attacked the Russian held Port Arthur in southern Manchuria, quickly forcing the already outdated Russian military to collapse. JAPAN AND CHINA: MODERN GIANTS WHO PRACTICE RACIAL HOMOGENEITY By the end of the 20th Century, both Japan and China had developed into industrial giants, responsible for the production, if not invention, of the majority of day-to-day appliances and convenience goods used all over the world. Both nations are also marked in their desire to retain their racial homogeneity, and do not tolerate mass Third World immigration into their lands, unlike the White Western nations. This policy is also applied to refugees: Japan for example, refused to take Vietnamese Boat People refugees unless they were racially compatible with the existing Japanese population: if not, they were turned away. This strict, racially-based immigration policy, is both Japan and China’s formula for long term survival and progress, and, if maintained, will ensure that they escape the fate of Western nations who have abandoned such policies. All material (c) copyright Ostara Publications, 1999. Re-use for commercial purposes strictly forbidden. | ||||||||||||||
