The treaty ports by the new Chinese republic was driven out by western imperialists. Thus option (B) is correct.
Treaty port refers to those port which are bound by the agreement with the foreigners to do trading activities with complete freedom and no restrictions. Treaty ports were mainly in Japan and China at the time of the 19th and 20th century.
The China and Japan had to sign the treaty of the ports due to the western influences and pressures from the powers such as Britain, France, Germany, the United States.
China had to pay the large amount of the war indemnity to the Britishers which in turn led to signing the port treaty and huge number of the ports when under the control of western powers.
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