美国驻华公使田贝与甲午中日议和

Charles Denby,the U.S. Minister to China and the Negotiation in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894—1895

中日甲午战争对中国与世界都有着深远的影响。这场战争中,美国驻华公使田贝推动美国政府由纵容日本侵略转向了积极斡旋并促成了中日议和的开启。广岛议和期间,他甚至为清政府建言献策,尝试挽救遭日本破坏的和谈。广岛议和失败后,他又推动了马关议和,更帮助日本敦促清政府批准了《马关条约》,使中日两国实现了议和。表面上,他响应了清政府的请求,但实际上完全是为了维护和扩大美国的在华侵略权益。

The Sino-Japanese War from 1894 to 1895 exerted a profound impact on China and the world as a whole.In this war,Charles Denby,U.S.Minister to China,promoted American government to change from conniving at Japanese invasion into actively mediating between China and Japan,which materialized the commencement of Sino-Japanese peace negotiation.During the Hiroshima Peace Talks,Denby also offered advice and suggestions to the Qing government,trying to save the peace talks marred by Japan.After the failure of Hiroshima Peace talks,he pushed the Shimonoseki Peace talks forward and helped Japan in urging the Qing government to approve of Treaty of Shimonoseki,which paved the road of Sino-Japanese peace talks.Denby,superficially in answer to the request from the Qing government,actually defended and expanded America＇s invasive interests in China.