“If China wants to annex Taiwan, it should also take back territory it gave to Russia,” says the country’s president

If China’s claims to Taiwan are a matter of territorial integrity, then Beijing should also take back territory from Russia that the last Chinese dynasty ceded in capitulation in the 19th century, Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said. , in an interview with Taiwanese media. China regards Taiwan, which is governed by democratically elected governments, as its own territory and has never ruled out using force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan’s government rejects this claim by Beijing, saying only the island’s residents can decide their future. Speaking in an interview with a Taiwanese television station broadcast late yesterday, Lai, whom China calls a “separatist”, referred to the 1858 Treaty of Aigun, in which China signed a concession to the then Russian empire of a vast tract of land in what is now the Russian Far East, […]
Source: News Beast

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