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.
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.
