Tag: unequal treaties

China Eyes Recovery of Russian Far East Coast to Outflank Island Chain Defenses

China is seeking to reclaim a vast stretch of Pacific coastline, including Russia's strategic Vladivostok naval base, lost under the 19th-century Treaty of Aigun and Convention of Peking, which Beijing still considers unequal and a historical injustice. This long-standing territorial dispute has been a point of friction between the two nations for over a century.