A map with the Russian island in China: in Putin's relationship and SI split - media

The Chinese side calls it the island of the Black Bear and its most east point. About it reports Newsweek. The map appeared on the background of reports of Western observers that in the relations of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the chairman of the CCP, Xi Jinping appeared tension. Some time after the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation initiated an invasion of Ukraine, Beijing concluded an agreement with Moscow on an unlimited partnership.

At the same time, Beijing's representatives call for the world settlement of the war, and Western analysts believe that China's neutrality brings cracks into their partnership with the Russian side. Professor of George Maize University Mark Katz believes that the Kremlin is considering Chinese maps, and the officials especially in which the Russian territory is marked as Chinese.

But the researcher notes that even if Putin is dissatisfied with this, he will not complain in public, because after Western sanctions, Moscow is dependent on economic relations with Beijing. The Russian-Chinese border passes the Amur River. The river itself is not owned by either party, but the islands on it have been the subject of controversy, since the 1960s of the last century until in 2008 they signed an agreement on the distribution of the island of the Great Ussuri.

Despite the fact that, according to agreements from the Russian Federation, China belongs only part of the island territory, it is designated as a completely Chinese official map on the updated official map. In addition to the island, the new map in China also includes the Indian state of Arunnacal Pradesh and the border region of Aksay-Chin. On August 29, India representatives protested, and they called claims on their territories absurd.

"The Chinese love to assert their authority and power - or what they consider authority and power. Recent of similar examples - the publication of maps, which indicate large territories of the South Chinese Sea," said David Silby, an employee of the Department of History at Cornell University. . Mark Katz noted that the drawing of lines on the maps does not compare with the attempt to physical holding borders that Russia is trying to do in Ukraine.