Treaties: Asia

First Chinese treaty with a European power, fixed the border along the Argun river and the Stanovoy range, Russia abandoned...

Ended the First Opium War, the first of the unequal treaties. China ceded Hong Kong Island, opened five treaty ports, Guangzhou...

Commodore Matthew Perry gunboat diplomacy opened Japan after 220 years of sakoku isolation. The treaty opened Shimoda and...

Russia Muravyov, with Crimean War timing and British French pressure on China, extracted the left bank of the Amur, 600,000...

After the Second Opium War and the burning of the Summer Palace, China ratified Tianjin treaties, opened more ports, legalized...

Sir Mortimer Durand and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan drew the frontier between British India and Afghanistan, splitting Pashtun lands...

Ended the First Sino Japanese War, a shocking demonstration of Japan rise and China decline. China recognized Korean...

After the Boxer Rebellion siege of foreign legations, China paid 450 million taels of silver over 39 years, foreign troops...

Theodore Roosevelt mediated the end of the Russo Japanese War at Portsmouth New Hampshire, winning the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize...

Ended the Pacific War occupation framework. Japan renounced Korea, Taiwan, Sakhalin, Kurils claims, but the treaty deliberately...

Kosygin mediated after the 1965 war, Shastri and Ayub agreed to withdraw to the 1949 line, restore diplomacy, solve disputes...

After Bangladesh war, Indira Gandhi and Bhutto at Simla, converted the December 1971 ceasefire line in Kashmir into the Line of...

Deng and Thatcher agreed Hong Kong handover 1997, One Country Two Systems, capitalism and liberties unchanged for 50 years until...