Editing Yuan Shikai (section)

=== Japan's 21 demands ===
{{Main|Twenty-One Demands}}
In 1914, Japan captured the German colony at [[Qingdao]]. In January 1915, Japan sent a secret ultimatum, known as the [[Twenty-One Demands]], to Beijing.{{sfn|Crean|2024|page=45}} Japan demanded an extension of [[extraterritoriality]], the sale of businesses in debt to Japan and the cession of Qingdao to Japan, and virtual control of finance and the local police. When these demands were made public, hostility within China was expressed in nationwide anti-Japanese demonstrations and an effective national boycott of Japanese goods.  With support from Britain and the United States Yuan secured Japan's dropping part five of the demands, which would have given Japan a general control of Chinese affairs. However he did accept the less onerous terms and that led to a decline in the popularity of Yuan's government.<ref>Zhitian Luo, "National humiliation and national assertion-The Chinese response to the twenty-one demands" ''Modern Asian Studies'' (1993) 27#2 pp. 297–319 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/312771 online]</ref>