1. The multiple payments in Article VII, which add up to 21 million, signal a huge problem with the fiscal situation of the Qing.
  2. Yes. It is the first treaty that one country should promise a lot of things that hurts it self, but the other country does not.
  3. Most British people or merchants would earn more profit after this treaty.
  4. Some Chinese merchants might gain some profit while they were trading with the British.