Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has openly said that Russia's territory is obtained through friendly consultations. Lavrov also said that Russia's conquest of Siberia was no different from the Qing Dynasty's conquest of Xinjiang.
Lavrov's words are obviously suspected of deliberately confusing concepts, and Russia's conquest of Siberia and the Qing Dynasty's inclusion of Xinjiang in the territory are not at all the same concept, so how can we refute him?
1. The Manchu conquest of Dzungaria was the unification of the Chinese cultural circle, and the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan and Hui ethnic groups
We know that Xinjiang was called the Western Regions before the Han Dynasty, in the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che sent the envoy Zhang Qian to contact Wusun, the generals Wei Qing and Huo Qubing attacked the Xiongnu in the north, broke Loulan, Cheshi, united Wusun, and Dawan, and the countries of the Western Regions were attached, and the Western Han Dynasty court set up the Western Regions Protectorate in this area to govern this area. Therefore, since the Western Han Dynasty, Xinjiang has been part of the Chinese cultural circle.
After that, although it experienced a period of great division such as the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasties, it was also a division within the Chinese cultural circle. The general trend of the world, together for a long time, must be divided, and after a long time, it must be united, which is the law of history. By the Qing Dynasty, the Mongol Dzungar tribe rose almost at the same time as the Later Jin. It's just that the Later Jin Dynasty rose in the white mountains and black waters in the northeast, and the Mongolian Junggar Department rose in the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.
Second, the annexation of Siberia by Tsarist Russia was naked plunder, which was completely different from the Qing Dynasty's conquest of Dzungaria
Siberia is a Xianbei language that is divided into Eastern Siberia, Central Siberia and Western Siberia by the Ural Mountains, the Yenisei River and the Lena River. Tsarist Russia was formerly known as Muscovy, and its jurisdiction was in the area of present-day Moscow. In 1283, Muscovy was founded, then a vassal state of the Golden Horde. Muscovy continued to grow, successively annexing Novgorod, Tver, Kazan, Astrakhan, etc., which was a naked expansion, and it was bad money that drove out good money. Beginning in the 16th century, Tsarist Russia occupied the Siberian Khanate, Tunguska, Yakutia, Chukotka with a pioneering regiment of 800 people all the way east, and set foot in the Heilongjiang River Valley. Until the Battle of Yaksa repulsed the Russian army, but turned around and landed on Kamchatka.
The Siberian region is characterized by cold and sparsely populated weather. Tsarist Russia had a unique advantage in conquering this part of Siberia. Tsarist Russia and Siberia belong to the same latitude of conquest, Russia has learned advanced combat technology from the West, and has the genes of the Slavs, and it is easy to fight these indigenous people of Siberia.
3. Summary
From the above analysis, we can see that the Manchu Qing Dynasty's conquest of Dzungaria in Xinjiang was a reunification of the Chinese civilization circle and a manifestation of the long-term unity, while the annexation of Siberia by Tsarist Russia was naked plunder, and the two are not the same, which are completely different things. And the Russians are the best at confusing two completely different concepts.