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title: "What was Secretary of State John Hay's intention in announcing the open-door policy for China in 1899?"  
description: "What was Secretary of State John Hay's intention in announcing the open-door policy for China in 1899?"  
author: "Cox elliott"  
published: 2018-04-23  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41307/what-was-secretary-of-state-john-hay-s-intention-in-announcing-the-open-door-policy-for-china-in-1899  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What was Secretary of State John Hay's intention in announcing the open-door policy for China in 1899?

What was [Secretary of State](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/100620/who-is-the-current-secretary-of-state-in-the-united-states) John Hay's intention in announcing the open-[door policy](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51205/what-prompted-the-u-s-formally-to-state-its-open-door-policy-in-1899-and-1900) for [China](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42795/what-government-action-first-allowed-american-businessmen-to-come-to-china-in-large-numbers) in 1899?


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