Dan Seitz

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To gain the protection of the other members of the Entente, Yuan Shi-kai asked to be invited to declare war on Germany too. But Japan vetoed any show of Chinese independence. Instead, in January 1915, Tokyo handed Beijing a list of 21 demands that were soon to acquire global notoriety as one of the most flagrant expressions of imperialism produced by the war.
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
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