When the Paris Peace Conference was convened in 1919, the Chinese delegation used China's position as one of the victor nations to demand a rebate of the indemnities that had been paid for some thirty years since the Eight Armies had extracted them from the Ch'ing court.
一九一九年在巴黎召開第一次世界大戰和會的時候，中國代表以戰勝國的地位，在會中提出退還庚子賠款的要求。