(Redirected from
Twenty-One Demands)
The Twenty-one demands were a set of demands which were sent to the Chinese government by the Japanese government of Okuma Shigenobu in 1915.
The demands caused a severe boycott movement of Japanese products in China.
The demands
- China must recognize all German rights, interests, and concessions related to the province of Shantung.
- China must not cede or lease any property on Shantung, or along its coast, to any power.
- China must allow Japan to build a railway connecting Chefoo or Lungkow with the Kiaochou Tsinanfu Railway .
- China must open up cities in Shantung for foreign residence and trade.
- China must extend the lease of Port Arthur, Dairen, the South Manchuria Railway, and the Antung-Mukden Railway for an additional 99 years.
- China must allow Japanese to lease or own land in South Manchuria and Eastern Inner Mongolia.
- China must allow Japanese freedom of movement in those regions.
- China must allow Japanese to mine in these regions.
- China must obtain Japanese permission before constructing (or permitting) a railway in these regions, and before loaning tax revenue from these regions to foreign powers.
- China must consult Japan when it needs political, financial, or military advisors.
- China must relinquish control of the Kirin-Chungchun Railway to Japan for a term of 99 years.
- China must make the Han-Yeh-Ping Company a joint concern of China and Japan.
- China must protect the rights of Han-Yeh-Ping to mine in the areas adjacent to its existing mines.
- China must not cede or lease any harbor or bay on its coast to any other power.
- China must utilize Japanese political, financial, and military advisers.
- China must allow Japanese hospitals, temples, and schools to own land.
- China must place its police under joint Japanese and Chinese administration, or employ Japanese policemen.
- China must obtain from Japan a supply of a certain quantity of arms, or establish an arsenal in China under joint Japanese and Chinese management, and must use experts and materials from Japan.
- China must allow Japan to build a railway to connect Wuchang with the Kiukiang-Nanchang and Hangchou, and between Nanchang and Chaochou.
- China must consult Japan whenever foreign capital is needed in improving the infrastructure of Fukien Province.
- China must give Japanese the right to preach in China.
External links
