China in 1920's under unequal treaty order, had been recognized neither as a “Nation State” among international societies, nor as a “Partner” for diplomatic negotiations. In these circumstances, the Kuomintang Party achieved to establish diplomatic relations by impelling the National Revolution. Although Nationalism had been built up among the Chinese people as a result of strong anti-foreign movements led by the Kuomintang Party, but on the contrary, it caused the possibility to bring about some incidents, which were deemed to be uncontrollable for the Nationalist Government.
In consequence of the developed labour movements at Hankow, it happened the incident between the Chinese mob led by the Chinese General Labour Union and the British marines on January 3, 1927, and the British Concession was took place of Chinese. On that account, the negotiation was held between O'Malley, the Counsellor of the British Legation at Peking and Eugene Chen, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Nationalist Government, however, Britain had to concede to China because of the restrictions imposed by the “Christmas Message”, and the British Concession was returned to China as a result. In the case of this Hankow Incident, the raised anti-foreign movements resulted in settling one of the Chinese diplomatic problems.

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