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Scramble for China
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Foreign imperialism in China.
1895–1911: Scramble for China
While the foreign settlements in Shanghai had been set up in cooperation with the local authorities and with the tacit, but not explicit, consent of the Chinese government, the concessions that were established later had a more definitive treaty basis and their development as well as the extension of their boundaries has been regularized by agreements with the Chinese government.