Therefore Britain dismissed their conventional policy of 'splendid isolation' and tried to negotiate with Germany first, and then approached Japan which had played a lively part in the Boxer Uprising.
そこで、それまでの「栄光ある孤立」政策を捨て、まずドイツとの交渉を試み、その後義和団事変で活躍した日本に接近した。