May 28, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9366
Senior Russian Journalist Kamakin: When Putin Referred To Those Coveting Russian Territory, He Probably Meant China
May 28, 2021
Moskovskij Komsomolets senior journalist Andrey Kamakin tries to figure out by process of elimination, the identity of the unnamed country Vladimir Putin was referring to, when he promised to knock out the teeth of those coveting Russia s territory. Kamakin s educated guess is that Putin was referring to China. The Chinese have not forgotten that they were forced to cede territory to Russia in the nineteenth century and an overcrowded China finds it unfair that these nearly deserted territories should be owned by Russia. Kamakin also recalls that the last foreign attack on Russia was launched by China. The article in the mass-circulation publication again shows that despite official claims about a strategic Russia-China partnership, suspicion of China lurks below the surface.