Today, China is becoming more and more powerful, and many countries naturally dare not despise China after seeing China's growing comprehensive national strength. But looking back at the last century, China and Chinese people have experienced an unforgettable history of humiliation. The so-called "backwardness will be beaten", and China, which was in a difficult situation at that time, was even more deeply experienced!
As one of China's neighbors, Afghanistan has a narrow strip of land in Badakhshan Province, in China's Xinjiang province, called the Wakhan Corridor, and is located at the southern end of the Pamir Plateau. The Wakhan Corridor has been controversial until now, with both Britain and Russia having occupied it militarily, and China has not been able to take it back.
According to relevant historical records, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a monk named Faxian who set out from Chang'an City and traveled west along the ancient Silk Road to seek Buddha. On the way, he passed through the Wakhan Corridor, and in his book "The Book of the Buddha's Kingdom", he mentioned the scene of the Wakhan Corridor. In the book, Fa Xian once used such a sentence to describe the desolate scene of the Wakhan Corridor: "Birds fly in the morning, and there are no beasts under it." During the Tang Dynasty, the Little Buru State once entrenched in the Wakhan Corridor, blocking the passage of the Silk Road at that time.
In 747, the Tang Dynasty sent the general Gao Xianzhi to destroy the small Buru state that was then entrenched in the Wakhan Corridor, and restored the Silk Road to unimpeded.
In 1759, the then Qing government quelled the rebellion of Dzungar, Daxiao, and Zhuomu, restored its rule over the Pamir Plateau, and sent troops to garrison it. In the 19th century, both Russia and Britain wanted to take up military occupation of the Pamir Plateau. However, with the expansion of the military aspects of the two countries, the interests of both sides have been damaged, and once for the sake of this area, the sword was fierce, and the battle for your life and death was fought, and in order to avoid the intensification of contradictions, Britain and Russia signed relevant agreements to assign the Wakhan Corridor to Afghanistan. This piece of the Wakhan Corridor, which originally belonged to China, was thus divided.
In 1963, the then Chinese foreign minister and the Afghan minister of internal affairs met and signed a pact on the border between the two countries, and also redrawn the Sino-Arab border in the Wakhan Corridor. Today, in the Wakhan Corridor, most of the inhabitants are Tajiks. Due to the harsh environment, not only is there a lack of food, but medical and educational conditions are also very backward, and there are all kinds of crime problems. A piece of territory that should have belonged to China ended up in such a fate, it is a pity!