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When it comes to Vladivostok, everyone knows that it is a niche city in Russia.
Because its territory is close to the northeast of the mainland, many tourists on the mainland use it as the first stop of their trip to Russia.
But what everyone doesn't know is that this place was once the territory of the mainland, and it has been more than 150 years since it was assigned to Russia due to unequal treaties.
Can the mainland still want this territory back? Didn't China and Russia agree to return Vladivostok to the mainland? Why didn't they return it after that?
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Tied to this territory is an unequal treaty in the "dark" recent history of the continent.
Around 1860, the territory of Vladivostok was assigned to Russia by the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing.
Although it was an unequal treaty, it still had the force of law, which meant that this territory was indeed ceded to Russia by the mainland.
Some people say, "Didn't Hong Kong and Macao return after that?" Then why couldn't Vladivostok return?
Macao and Hong Kong are only leased to other countries, but the sovereignty is still in the hands of China, and the sovereignty of Vladivostok is no longer in the hands of the mainland.
Then why didn't the mainland fight to get this land back on the basis of reason at that time?
Legally, we really don't take advantage of it. The unequal treaties of the time clearly stipulated in law that the territory was not part of the mainland, and both sides accepted it.
And as soon as the treaty was signed, the Soviet Union was happy, drove all the local Chinese away, and let the Soviets live in, and after so many years, it has obviously developed into a completely different style from the Chinese mainland.
Moreover, this place did not have much attraction to the mainland at that time, and in the eyes of the mainland, Vladivostok was too small and the value of development was a little low.
In addition, the overall strength of the mainland navy at that time was low, and the coastline of Vladivostok was so long, I don't know how much financial, material and human resources had to be invested.
Moreover, looking at the historical background at that time, the mainland and the Soviet Union were allies at that time, comrades-in-arms in the fight against US imperialist capitalism, and everyone was working together to think about how to confront the West.
As a result, the mainland suddenly told the Soviet Union that it was an ally, can the previous unequal treaty we signed be annulled and that Vladivostok should be returned to China?
Then there are doubts: Didn't China and Russia agree to return Vladivostok? Is this fake news? Or has Russia repented?
In 1945, when China and the Soviet Union signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance, they did make a promise to return Vladivostok to China in 1995, but this was also agreed by the Soviet Union under the pressure of the situation.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek threatened the Soviet Union that if the Soviet Union did not agree, then China would stand with the United States and the West and not be an ally of the Soviet Union.
Despite the situation, the mainland still hoped that the Soviet Union would fulfill this promise and return Vladivostok to China, so that the mainland could expand its territory and achieve further development.
Seeing that 1995 was just a few years away, who would have expected that in 1991, the Soviet Union would collapse.
So how does this promise count?
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At that time, the question of the ownership of Vladivostok became the center of heated discussions.
After so many years of development, Vladivostok has become one of the largest ports in Russia, an important military base, and a place with great development potential.
But there are hardly any Chinese in the area, and the history of Vladivostok has been classified as Russia's development process, and Russia seems to be biting this place.
As a result, the question of the ownership of Vladivostok has become a sensitive topic that continues to this day.
Vladivostok is now called Vladivostok in Russia, and is geographically located at the junction of Russia, China and North Korea, facing the sea on three sides.
And one of the main bases of the Russian Pacific fleet is also in Vladivostok.
Important military bases in Russia not only play a protective role in Russia's security and stability in the Far East, but also their strategic position should not be underestimated.
It can be seen that Vladivostok is of great strategic importance to Russia in many ways, and it is even more unlikely that Russia will give this large piece of fat to others.
Russia pretended to be stupid about the promise to return Vladivostok to the mainland, did not take the initiative to mention it, and also strengthened its defenses, for fear that the mainland would one day snatch this place back.
After all, the USSR is gone, and now this land is called Russia. The territorial dispute between the two countries is difficult to deal with, and the two countries cannot think of a good solution for a while.
Moreover, it has recently been reported that China and Russia have cooperated in many economic directions in the Vladivostok region, is Russia willing to return this place to the mainland?
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Shen Tie's first outbound tourist train to Vladivostok this year will promote the tourism development of Vladivostok, an important city in the Russian Far East, and further bring the relationship between the mainland and Russia closer.
This provides great convenience for mainland tourists to visit Vladivostok.
But this does not mean that Russia has relented.
Instead, they were developing Vladivostok as owners, inviting us to work together, emphasizing that Vladivostok was their country and that we were just partners.
In the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation" signed in 2001, the mainland and Russia also negotiated on the issue of the direction of the border line in Vladivostok, a section on which China and Russia have not yet reached consensus. In the end, the two sides reached an agreement to "negotiate on an equal footing, understand and compromise with each other".
This means that the two countries will no longer fight to the death over the question of who belongs to this place, but will deal with this place more in the form of friendship and cooperation.
In recent years, Vladivostok has been opened to the mainland by Russia as a transit port for domestic trade freight, which not only adds a new outlet to the sea for the mainland, but also makes the transportation of goods in the northeast more convenient.
At the same time, Russia has also strengthened its ties with the mainland in foreign trade and has made great economic development. At present, a mutually beneficial and win-win situation has been reached.
There are no absolute allies between countries, and any international decision is made by the state after consideration of all aspects and is in line with the national interest.
However, the mainland still needs to develop itself, rely on itself, and put its own national interests first in order to win more voice in the world.
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China Economic Briefing: Shen Tie Kaixing's first outbound tourist train to Vladivostok this year——2024-04-18 ·Xinhua News Agency