Shortly before the embrace of Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 20, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources put out a requirement that in future, Chinese maps of major locations in the Russian Far East, including Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, and Sakhalin were required to use Chinese names, not…
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