ABSTRACT
The history of China's efforts to end extraterritoriality requires fundamental reanalysis. 1 It was formerly thought that Moscow abolished extraterritoriality on May 31, 1924, when it signed the Sino-Soviet agreement stating: "The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics agrees to relinquish the rights of extraterritoriality and consular jurisdiction." 2 Legal scholars such as Wesley Fishel concluded that China completely abolished extraterritoriality on January 11, 1943, when the United States and Great Britain followed the USSR and signed treaties with China eliminating their final extraterritorial rights. 3
