TIL: China and the Versailles treaty
Jun. 21st, 2019 11:53 pmIn 1919 at the Versailles Peace Conference, a feeble China was forced to accept the decisions of the big powers. China was on the winning side, but the settlement went against their interests. This caused Peking University students to demonstrate and protest, launching a nationalist movement to modernise and revive the country, and this was a seminal moment in modern Chinese history.
--- LEE HSIEN LOONG, PRIME MINISTER OF SINGAPORE. May 31, 2019. Keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue.
Also see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement
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