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| Sino-Japanese War and the Selection of Russian Far East Policy - Reflections on Sino-Japanese War |
| Zhang Li |
| Department of Politics and Administration, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029 |
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Abstract In the mid-1880s, the Russia returned to the international stage of the Far East, cautiously penetrating to Korea. Treating China as a potential rival, Russia gradually undermined the Qing government's suzerain rule in Korea. During 1894-1895, Japan invaded both Korea and China. During the Sino-Japanese War,
Russian Far East foreign policy changed several times. At the very start, Russia attempted to mediate the Sino- Japanese conflict on his own, then adopted a "wait and see" policy, then sought mediation together with the United Kingdom, then the final selection of allying with the Qing. An investigation on the change of the Sino-Russian foreign policy and the reason will help us to understand the far-reaching impact of the Sino-Japanese War on Northeast Asia as well as the background of the secret alliance between China and Russia.
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Received: 09 October 2014
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2015, Vol. 32 
