Convention of Tientsin

The Treaty of Tientsin was an agreement between the Empire of China of the Qing Dynasty and the Empire of Japan of the Meiji period. He was signed by both parties on 18 April 1885 in Tientsin. They called this as " Li- Itō Treaty " after the two negotiators Li Hongzhang and Ito Hirobumi for the Chinese for the Japanese side.

After Gapsin coup in 1884 during the Korean Joseon Dynasty, the tension between China and Japan escalated due to mutual hegemony regarding the Korean Peninsula. In order to reduce these tensions following agreement was reached after extensive negotiations:

The contract pushed China's demand for an exclusive control over Korea a bar before and made Korea a protectorate mutual, both of Japan, as well as from China. Despite the negotiations was for both sides of the contract no serious preventive against further conflict, and the next serious confrontation over Korea escalated immediately to the First Sino-Japanese War.