Humiliating diplomacy.

Impressions: A weak country without diplomacy will be beaten if it falls behind; do not forget the national humiliation and revitalize China, etc.

It reflects the diplomatic history of humiliating the country and the export of imperialist capital. The aggression to divide the world requires European powers to enjoy one-sided most-favored-nation clauses. The aggression of foreign capitalism against China has entered a new stage. Chinese society is semi-colonial. The degree of culturalization has been greatly deepened.

The "Treaty of Shimonoseki" brought Japan huge benefits and stimulated its aggressive ambitions. At the same time, the treaty also made China's national crisis unprecedentedly serious and its semi-colonialization degree greatly deepened. The treaty met the needs of the imperialist powers to export capital to China, and then the powers set off a frenzy to carve up China.

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Six days after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Russian Empire joined forces with France and Germany to launch a war against Japan because Japan occupied the Liaodong Peninsula and hindered its expansion of power into Northeast China. put one's oar in.

As a result, Japan decided to abandon the Liaodong Peninsula on May 4, 1895, but asked China to "redeeme" it for 30 million taels of silver. It is known in history as "The intervention of the Three Kingdoms and the return of Liao Dynasty". One day after the Sino-Japanese War, Japan extorted a huge amount of 230 million taels of silver from China.

However, the Three Kingdoms' intervention in Liaoning was still a sudden disaster for Japan. It frustrated Japan's attempt to invade Manchuria (Northeast China) by taking advantage of its victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1884-1894, and also allowed Russia to strengthen its military presence in the Far East. The power of Japan restrained Japan's expansion in Northeast China and Korea.

In order to realize the second step (annexation of North Korea) and the third step (invasion of Manchuria and Mongolia) of Japan's "mainland policy", Japan reorganized its military preparations for war and launched a war against Russia ten years later.