. Russia stumbles to regain prestige The Yomiuri Shimbun / April 27
Observing the machinations of European countries over the Iraq war, I was reminded of the Tripartite Intervention with Japan over a century ago.
Germany, France and Russia, who opposed the U.S.-led attack on Iraq, happen to be the very same three European powers that demanded in 1895 that Japan give up the Liaodong Peninsula, acquired by Tokyo in winning the Japanese-Sino War. . .
