In Article IIa of the Boxer Protocol of 1901 , the Eight-Nation Alliance that had provided military forces ( Austria - Hungary , France , Germany , Italy , Japan , Russia , the United Kingdom , and the United States ) successfully pressed for the rehabilitation of Xu Jingcheng by an Imperial Edict of the Qing government :
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