China directed a return to the use of Chinese names for land it once lost to Russia. In Beijing’s new directive Vladivostok once again is called Haishenwai; Sakhalin is called Kuyedao. Message is: if Russia collapses, Xi could recover lost territories 🥇 https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/13560
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bgroothuis/status/1650066984267071489
Beijing has permitted Chinese columnists to remind Chinese people of their wish to recover lost territory (8 Russian place names, six cities including Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, one island and one mountain)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bgroothuis/status/1650066985743466499
Please note the China did so, just before president Xi made his recent visit to Moscow, so there wasn’t any room for diplomatic manoeuvre for the Kremlin to complain. #truefriendship
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bgroothuis/status/1650066986729177089
