Editing Triple Intervention (section)

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[[File:Convention of retrocession of the Liatung Peninsula 8 November 1895.jpg|thumb|Convention of retrocession of the [[Liaodong Peninsula]], 8 November 1895|upright=1.35]]
The '''Triple Intervention''' or {{nihongo|'''Tripartite Intervention'''|三国干渉|Sangoku Kanshō}} was a diplomatic intervention by [[Russian Empire|Russia]], [[German Empire|Germany]], and [[French Third Republic|France]] on 23 April 1895 over the terms of the [[Treaty of Shimonoseki]], imposed by [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] on [[Qing dynasty|Qing China]] at the end of the [[First Sino-Japanese War]]. The treaty, signed on 17 April, had ceded the [[island of Taiwan]] and the [[Liaodong Peninsula]] to Japan. In response, the three Western powers advised Japan to renounce the Liaodong Peninsula on the grounds that it would cause instability; Japan, anxious to keep their goodwill, did so by treaty on 8 November. The Japanese public was outraged, especially after Russia [[Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula|obtained a 25-year lease on the peninsula]] in 1898. The reaction against the Triple Intervention was one of the causes of the [[Russo-Japanese War]] of 1904–1905, in which Japan [[Kwantung Leased Territory|won the Russian lease on the peninsula]].<ref name= Kowner>Kowner, '' Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War'', p. 375.</ref>