Like other imperialists, they played naked big-power politics.
Within days of signing it, he flew off with a vast entourage to rant against "imperialists" at the UN in New York, without the slightest indication that anything had changed back home.
The broad working masses were undaunted, and persisted in their struggle with the result that the Qing government did not dare to conclude a new treaty with the imperialists.
