 These were all regarded as "fulfilled provisions" and not subject to later nullification or cancellation.The People's Republic of China does not recognize the Treaty of Taipei.Russia wasted little time after the Triple Intervention to move men and materials down into the Liaodong to start building a railroad from both ends — Port Arthur and Harbin, as it already had railway construction in progress across northern Inner Manchuria to shorten the rail route to Russia's principal Pacific Ocean naval base at Vladivostok, a port closed by ice four months of each year.