Mack, Mary E. (Betty)2023-07-052023-07-051951-06https://hdl.handle.net/1794/28477169 pagesJohn Hay did not invent the Open Door policy. It is as old as American relations with Asia. The tap-root of American policy has been not philanthropy but the demand for protection of our nationals in the Far East and the objective of keeping open opportunity for them in the future. The resulting policy was one which has since become known as the Open Door policy. It received this name in 1899 just as it tended to assume a secondary position among American objectives in Asia. The Open Door policy is an attempt to secure economic opportunity for the United States in Far Eastern markets. It would have a Far East orderly enough to furnish safe and lucrative markets, strong enough to prevent unilateral exploitation of her economic resources and yet not strong enough to threaten United States economic interests. One of the fundamental methods used was the ingenious device of the most-favored-nation clause. Caleb Cushing was the first secure this guarantee to American opportunity in the Treaty of the Wanghia with China in 1844.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USCaleb CushingAmerican policyCanton, ChinaThesis / Dissertation