To ensure fairn-ess, Hay reque-sted that the Chinese them-selves be given the power to collect taxes so that no po-wer could un-fairly tax the trade of another power being condu-cted inside of their sphere of influence. This was kno-wn as the ' Open Door Policy ' or ' fair field a-nd no favor. '
The Open Door policy first init-iated in 1899, with a follow up miss-ive in 1900 was signi-ficant in its attempt by the United States to estab-lish an inter-national protocol of equal privil-eges for all countries trading with China and to sup-port China's territorial and adminis-trative integrity.
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