Tianjin Accord

This article is about the 1884 agreement between France and China. For the 1885 treaty between Japan and China over their competition for influence in Joseon, see Convention of Tientsin.
Li Hongzhang (left) and François-Ernest Fournier (right), the Chinese and French representatives who negotiated the Accord.

The Tianjin Accord or Li–Fournier Convention, concluded on 11 May 1884, was intended to settle an undeclared war between France and China over the sovereignty of Tonkin (northern Vietnam). The convention, negotiated by Li Hongzhang for China and capitaine de vaisseau François-Ernest Fournier for France, provided for a Chinese troop withdrawal from Tonkin in return for a comprehensive treaty that would settle details of trade and commerce between France and China and provide for the demarcation of its disputed border with Vietnam.[1]

  1. ^ Thomazi, Conquête, 189–92