17.09.2024_Editorial_

When it comes to Taiwan, Beijing is absolutely uncompromising. Any doubts about Chinese claims to the neighboring country are hyped up as a national affair. Oddly enough, however, this does not happen when it comes to territories that Russia occupied in the middle of the 19th century. At the time, these belonged to the Qing dynasty and even led to military disputes between Moscow and Beijing in the 1960s.