As Beijing and Moscow are once again enjoying “a golden age” quite akin to the heady days of the 1950s will these nettlesome historical issues continue to impact the otherwise blossoming partnership?
The Island that Russia and China Went to War Over
As Beijing and Moscow are once again enjoying a golden age, will nettlesome historical issues continue to impact the otherwise blossoming partnership?
Here s What You Need To Remember: Russia’s commemoration of the Damansky Island battle has been low key, but the few Russian articles that have been published did not pull any punches.
Few skirmishes have had consequences on the scale of the violent clash on Damansky Island [Даманский остров/珍宝岛] from early March 1969. Thankfully war was averted between the two Communist powers, but the reverberations had an enormous impact on geopolitics, and most likely also contributed in a partial way to both the demise of the USSR and the concomitant rise of China. Putting these larger historical questions aside, however, another vital question also arises when considering the blood on the Ussuri River ice that was spilled in some quantity during those dark days. As Be