Li And The Late Qing Dynasty, "united Russia Against Japan"

Towards the end of the nineteenth, the Qing government was being domestic trouble and foreign invasion. Facing the Japan's invasion, Li-hongzhang, according to the diplomacy principle of "using one country to resist another country", brought up the foreign policy of "combining with Russia to resist Japan". This foreign policy is that Qing Dynasty make use of the contradictory of invading China between Russian and Japan, and relied on Russia to resist Japan. After China established diplomatic relations with Japan in modern times, Li-hongzhang changed his idea quickly from combining with Japan to guarding Japan. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the three states together asking Japan to return Liao-dong, Li-hongzhang began combining with Russia to resist Japan, and in 1896, Li-hongzhang signed "the Sino-Russian Secret agreement" with Russia. But this agreement did not make Qing government realize the aim of combining with Russia to resist Japan, on the contrary, this policy opened the convenience's door for Russia invading China. During the eight states invading China, Russian army seized the north-east of China. In spite other people objected, Li-hongzhang slicked to sign the agreement of occupying the north-east of China in fact , and became the agent of Russian interest in China. This thesis, according to the history fact, and collecting the historical data and applying the history knowledge, expounds the shape of the policy and the result brought by the policy. This thesis also expounds some questions clearly about "combining with Russia", and clarifies some knowledge about this field.