POLICIES & PRINCIPLES
A quarter century ago the two nations most bitterly opposed to special foreign privileges in East Asia were the Chinese and the Soviet Russians. China's surging nationalists denounced the "unequal treaties" which had given 19 nations, including Denmark, extraterritoriality and other rights in China. Russia's new Workers' and Peasants' Government thundered:
"Every nation, small or great ... or incorporated against its will into the structure of another state, should be free in its inner life. . . . [We declare] annulled all the ... treaties by which the Tsar's Government together with its allies, through force and corruption, enslaved...