Triple Intervention

Convention of retrocession of the Liaodong Peninsula, 8 November 1895

The Tripartite Intervention or Triple Intervention (三国干渉, Sangoku Kanshō) was a diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany, and France on 23 April 1895 over the harsh terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki imposed by Japan on China that ended the First Sino-Japanese War. The goal was to stop Japanese expansion in China. The Japanese reaction against the Triple Intervention was one of the causes of the subsequent Russo-Japanese War.[1]

  1. ^ Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 375.