Abstract: Armed force was the setting of the modern Western international order. After entering China, it gradually suppressed the Chinese concept of world order which was the foundation of traditional Chinese foreign policy. This directly led to the encroachment on Chinese territory and the sovereignties of Chinese vassal states by the Western countries that had signed treaties with China. The Qing government responded by restoring the traditional system and using Western international laws to defend her rights and interests. Under the combined “Chinese Tradition-Foreign International law model”(zhong wai-wai) model, that this paper puts forward, the Qing government implemented not only the traditional methods of foreign policy, but also utilized modern international law. After 1880s, the Qing foreign policy toward Korea represented the practice of the hybrid “Chinese Tradition-Foreign International law” model.