Your forces in Tsingtao that number almost one-third of your entire army are tolerated as guests of Her Most Enlightened Majesty until Her patience should ebb. Meanwhile, I have trained my scores of artillery guns on your redoubts and your ships in harbor and my army of several dozen infantry and cavalry brigades have assumed suitable deployment. We are activating a number of reserve brigades that would constitute in many nations an army in itself. In all other respects as we have sought to make plain to you, we are making most prudent preparations to withstand the awful ferocity of your most earnest verbal taunts of impending attack and your aggressive diplomatic posturing.

Her Eminence has scribbled for me some simple notes that I have transcribed for your superiors who currently enjoy residence in Tokyo. She in Her Wisdom has sought to proffer the following terms that you should find correspondent with the hubris and pridefulness of your own. Please do forgive my inelegant transcription of her terms but formal diplomacy requires words and ways that often fail to communicate the subtlety of my Majesty's most splendid gospel.

Treaty of Perpetual Friendship

1. Japan shall recognize China as sovereign over all indigenous Chinese lands as of 1850 and China recognizes Japan as sovereign over all indigenous Japanese lands held as of 1850.
a. Japan shall vacate all Chinese lands, including Taiwan and any ports or Japanese concessions shall heretofore be restored to China by Q1, 1902 and China will vacate any relevant Japanese lands that it is currently in occupation of and shall retire any concessions it holds on Japanese trade.
b. Japanese warships will not navigate Chinese territorial waters without explicit permission and nor will Chinese warships illegally intrude on Japanese waters.

2. China shall exercise her sovereign and legal rights as an independent nation in all affairs.

a. Japan shall likewise as an independent state exercise her full range of sovereign rights in all affairs.

3. Japan shall sponsor a formal signing ceremony in Tsingtao whereby the Japanese flag will be lowered and the Chinese flag shall be raised as symbolic gesture of the passing of authority over the city.

4. China shall pay Japan the sum of 0 pounds restitution for the exploitation of Japanese national wealth during the period of 1895-1901.

a. Japan shall pay China the sum of 500 million pounds restitution for the exploitation of Chinese national wealth for the period of 1895-1901.

We eagerly await your reply.

Grand Chancellor Ronglu