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Respect History: Chinese Names for Places Occupied by Russia

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4 hours ago, alvnv said:

A month ago China issued a directive requiring that Chinese names are added to the eight places occupied by Russia:

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1758315543670807002&wfr=spider&for=pc

 

For those of us who don't read Chinese, could you please summarize the gist of this article and mention a few of those eight places? Thanks!

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16 hours ago, alvnv said:

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From what you're posting, it sounds as if there was a treaty signed and agreed to by Russia and China. It's fine to remember history, but obviously all countries can't claim to land just because that's the way it was historically. It's clearly impossible for every country to be the size it was at its greatest extent. Greece used to extend all the way to India. The Persians had an empire that extended to Greece. The US once owned the land around the Panama Canal. Hell, Lithuania once extended all the way to the Black Sea. Once both sides agree, for whatever reason, borders need to be respected.

Poland-Lithuania at its height, 1575 : r/imaginarymaps

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12 hours ago, unicorn said:

From what you're posting, it sounds as if there was a treaty signed and agreed to by Russia and China. It's fine to remember history, but obviously all countries can't claim to land just because that's the way it was historically. It's clearly impossible for every country to be the size it was at its greatest extent. Greece used to extend all the way to India. The Persians had an empire that extended to Greece. The US once owned the land around the Panama Canal. Hell, Lithuania once extended all the way to the Black Sea. Once both sides agree, for whatever reason, borders need to be respected.

I don’t disagree… I posted the article published in China to convey some of the sentiments that exist there. Chinese have long been complaining about the “unequal treaties” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_treaty).

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35 minutes ago, alvnv said:

I don’t disagree… I posted the article published in China to convey some of the sentiments that exist there. Chinese have long been complaining about the “unequal treaties” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_treaty).

Waah, waah, waah. What a bunch of crybabies. If they're so big on history, maybe they should give all of their territory back to Mongolia. After all, in the past China was part of the Mongol Empire:

Genghis Khan and the largest empire in history – Manchester Historian

There are many countries, maybe most, which were bigger at some point. Turks:

Height of empire size | Osmanli

British:

Stop pretending Empires were nothing to do with us, if we really want to  understand who we are: British, Dutch, Japanese, American…

French:

PPT - The New Dictator PowerPoint Presentation, free download - ID:4879195

And what would Africa look like?

How did Belgium become an empire? - Quora

 

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7 hours ago, unicorn said:

Waah, waah, waah. What a bunch of crybabies. If they're so big on history, maybe they should give all of their territory back to Mongolia. After all, in the past China was part of the Mongol Empire:

Genghis Khan and the largest empire in history – Manchester Historian

There are many countries, maybe most, which were bigger at some point. Turks:

Height of empire size | Osmanli

British:

Stop pretending Empires were nothing to do with us, if we really want to  understand who we are: British, Dutch, Japanese, American…

French:

PPT - The New Dictator PowerPoint Presentation, free download - ID:4879195

And what would Africa look like?

How did Belgium become an empire? - Quora

 

Not quite the same. They are not “crying” after what they used to have as a result of a conquest, but rather what they lost to other empires. More like Mexico/US, Spain/UK, Armenia/Turkey... There are plenty of examples like that pretty much all over the world.

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On 3/17/2023 at 8:07 AM, alvnv said:

Not quite the same. They are not “crying” after what they used to have as a result of a conquest, but rather what they lost to other empires. More like Mexico/US, Spain/UK, Armenia/Turkey... There are plenty of examples like that pretty much all over the world.

You think that the US didn't acquire most of its territory from Mexico from conquest? When the Mexicans sent 80 troops north of the Rio Grande to support their claim over that area, the US sent troops to attack Mexico all the way to Mexico City then pretty much forced the Mexicans to sign the treaty giving the US most of the territory the US wanted. The victor in wars usually sets the rules. C'est la vie. 

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11 hours ago, unicorn said:

You think that the US didn't acquire most of its territory from Mexico from conquest? When the Mexicans sent 80 troops north of the Rio Grande to support their claim over that area, the US sent troops to attack Mexico all the way to Mexico City then pretty much forced the Mexicans to sign the treaty giving the US most of the territory the US wanted. The victor in wars usually sets the rules. C'est la vie. 

That’s exactly what I meant.

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