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Russia wanted Dalian for a warm-water port and domination of Manchuria.
Japan was content before the war with an agreement in which Japan would get Korea and Russia would get Manchuria.
So what if during the Portsmouth negotiations it was decided that Japan could get all of Sakhalin and the Kando region of Manchuria and Russia would get Dalian?