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In 1899, secretary of state John Hay articulated the Open Door Policy, which called for all Western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets. Hay feared that other imperial powers—Japan, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Russia—planned to carve China into spheres of influence.
In my opinion, the Open Door Policy represented a good effort to balance the concerns of different countries within a complicated geopolitical situation
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