“以夷制夷”政策的再次实践——《马关条约》前后清廷为保台湾的外交努力

Once More Practice of "Overcoming Foreigners by Foreigners"——Diplomatic Effort Which the Qing Government Adopts to Defend Taiwan around the Signing of "Shimonoseki Treaty"

《马关条约》签订前后,日本割占台湾的企图昭然若现,从“三国干涉还辽”中看到希望的清政府为保台湾采取的外交努力,依然是遵循“以夷制夷”的思想主旨,寄希望于英、俄、法、德等国对日本的干预。但事实告诉世人,“以夷制夷”思想指导下的清廷外交政策,并不能够挽回台湾被割占的命运。

Around the signing of ＂Shimonoseki Treaty＂, Japanese attempt to occupy Taiwan that has been apparently revealed. The Qing government find the hope in time of Triple Intervention about Retrocession of Liaotung , therefore the diplomatic effort that adopts to defend Taiwan also follows the policy of ＂overcoming foreigners by foreigners＂. The government places hopes in the intervention by England, Russia, France, Germany with Japan. But the facts tell us： the Qing government＇ s foreign policy instructed by the thought of ＂overcoming foreigners by foreigners＂ can not recall Taiwan＇ s destiny of being ceded.