What is a foreign rule?

Question

In 1842 China lost a war against Britain known as the Opium war. As a result of the peace treaty , five cities on China’s coast were placed under foreign rule.

Answer 1

Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme political (e.g. legislative, judicial, and/or executive) authority over a geographic region, group of people, or oneself.

Or foreign rule.

Answer 2

These places that you speak of were run as trading concessions (Hongs) granted by treaty to various Foreign ententes (missionaries among them) and were protected by the military of those nations granted trading concessions.

Answer 3

basically it means they became like a british colony whereby they lived by foreign rule i.e. british rule. hope that helps.

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