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On July 24, 1886, China and Britain signed the Burma Clause.
On this day, 139 years ago, July 24, 1886 (June 23, 1886 in the lunar calendar), China and the UK signed the Myanmar Clause. On July 24, 1886, China and Britain signed the "Myanmar Clause", and the Qing government was forced to recognize the British occupation of Myanmar. After the Sino-French War, in order to compete with France's power in southwest China, Britain sent troops to capture King Xibao of Myanmar in November 1885 on the pretext of the case of the King of Myanmar fined the British Wood Merchants Company. On New Year's Day the following year, it sent a note to the Qing government, announcing that Upper Myanmar would be merged into India. The Qing government, which had just signed the New Treaty between China and France, naturally dared not oppose it. On July 24, the Prime Minister's Yamen Minister Isho and the former British Minister to China Ogner signed the Myanmar Articles of the China-UK Conference in Beijing. There are five paragraphs in total. The main contents are as follows: 1. Britain allows Myanmar to submit local goods to the Qing Dynasty once every ten years; 2. The Qing government recognizes the sovereignty gained by Britain in Myanmar; 3. China and the UK should send personnel to demarcate the China-Myanmar border and establish a separate chapter on border trade affairs; 4. Britain agreed to suspend sending personnel from India to Tibet, but in principle stipulated trade on the Tibetan-India border. However, in fact, Britain did not give up its aggression against Xizang and launched an armed war of aggression against Tibet in March 1888. Prime Minister Yamen Minister Yi


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