What was American Involvement in the Sino-Japanese in 1894-1895?

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What was American Involvement in the Sino-Japanese in 1894-1895?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Effectively there was no American involvement.  Both China and Japan looked to Europe rather than the US for assistance in building their militaries, and for good reason.  The US Army was small and only equipped to fight Indian wars.  The US Navy was still small and while it was engaged in a major building program, arguably the Chinese Navy in 1894 would have been a superior force to the US Navy had it not been plagued with corruption and mismanagement.  Indeed, on paper the Chinese Navy was stronger in 1894 than that of the US with two battleships that outgunned anything the US Navy had.  Nor did America play any significant part in trying to restore peace.

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Effectively there was no American involvement.  Both China and Japan looked to Europe rather than the US for assistance in building their militaries, and for good reason.  The US Army was small and only equipped to fight Indian wars.  The US Navy was still small and while it was engaged in a major building program, arguably the Chinese Navy in 1894 would have been a superior force to the US Navy had it not been plagued with corruption and mismanagement.  Indeed, on paper the Chinese Navy was stronger in 1894 than that of the US with two battleships that outgunned anything the US Navy had.  Nor did America play any significant part in trying to restore peace.

Thanks ,then could you please tell me some European Involvement?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

France, Britain, and Germany were all involved in the pre-war arming of both sides. (France pretty much only with arming Japan because of the antagonism between France and China over Indochina and South China.) I don't believe any foreign powers were involved during the actual fighting.

Also Russia wasn't happy about all the gains Japan made under the Treaty of Shimonoseki which ended the Sino-Japanese War as they interfered with their own plans in China, so it managed to organize a Triple Intervention with France and China to force Japan to retrocede back the Liaodong Peninsula to China in exchange for more money.  The Russians then promptly occupied the Peninsula, so the Triple Intervention was a contributing factor to both the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the Russo-Japanese War later on.

Besides Russia, the other three principal European powers: Germany, France, and Britain all took advantage of the unexpected weakness China demonstrated during the war to extract concessions.  After all, if puny Japan could unexpectedly beat China, why not get while the getting was good?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

America really did not factor into the global dynamic, outside of North and South America, until after The Spanish American War in 1898. Prior to that, the imperial powers like Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Japan were not very impressed and generally disregarded it. "A good kind providence deals with all fools, drunkards and the United States" - Otto Von Bismarck.