Speech #890185505

The United States thereafter announced its opendoor policy toward China. The opendoor policy purported to preserve the territorial integrity of China and to safeguard for all nations equal commercial access to China. Limited and ineffective as it was. the open door policy induced the Chinese to think of the United States as the only major foreign power which might be thought of as their friend and possible protector. The opendoor remained the basis of American policy toward China until the Communists came to power in 1949 and closed Chinas door. Political history hardly begins to convey the human effects of.