Chinese nationalists do not like that Vladivostok under the control of the Russian Federation - The Economist
In China, Vladivostok is traditionally referred to as hayrshenva, which means a bay of sea cucumbers and nationalist Chinese emphasize that once this city in the Far East of the Russian Federation was under the control of their country. About it today, April 3, writes The Economist.
Against the backdrop of news about Russian-Chinese relations that develop and reached "higher level in history", the Chinese still remind the world that their country has given way to the Russian Federation a large part of the territory, including Vladivostok, in the 19th century. In the last month, they discussed rapidly on social networks "unequal agreements" that selected this land from them.
The publication writes that the discussion provoked the order of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China, which repeats the 2003 order, which requires to name 8 settlements in Russia, their historical names on China maps. And the largest Russian port in the Pacific is one of these 8 cities. Censorship tries to reassure the situation, the pages of public figures who break the topic simply block.
The main media of the country, even related to the Communist Party, Global Times, who likes to reproach foreign countries in their 19th-century colonialism, avoid this topic. Meanwhile, today, April 3, it became known that Chinese analysts use the study of events taking place in Ukraine to strengthen their own army. At the end of March, Focus wrote that Xi Jinping stated that he was preparing his country for the coming war and his words should be taken seriously.