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When I was a pupil in our textbooks China referred to "Nerchinsk Treaty" as the border demarcation between Russia and China made in 1689 , according to which China claimed a vast land till Sea of Japan including Vladivostok today (we called Haishenwai)
Background
Full details ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sino-Soviet_Border_Agreement
May that shed a little light on possible Sino-India territorial solutions?
But hundreds of years after that treaty China had been decaying all the time.... Then what mutual compromises/concessions have been made to solve all the disputes in a new world context?Since then, the two countries through negotiations on an equal footing, at 28 years (1689) and Russia signed the "Treaty Nerchinsk" legally defined the eastern section of the Sino-Russian border, which is China and Western countries to sign the first treaty .
Background
The border between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China had long been an issue of contention. The Sino-Soviet border was a legacy of various treaties between the Qing Dynasty and the Russian Empire, the Treaty of Aigun and the Treaty of Beijing, in which Russia gained over 1 million km² (400,000 mi²) of territory in Manchuria at China's expense, and another 500,000 km² in the western regions from several other treaties. These treaties have long been regarded by Chinese as unequal treaties, and the issue partially arose again with the Sino-Soviet split, with tensions eventually leading to division-scale military clashes along the border in 1969.
Even as tensions lessened and leaders on both sides adopted more conciliatory attitudes, the border issue remained unresolved. Despite the view of the previous border treaties as unequal ones, Chinese leaders were willing to negotiate on the basis of the modern boundaries. That left about 35,000 km² of territory in dispute, with about 28,000 km² in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, 6,000 km² elsewhere along the western border, and about 1,000 km² along the Argun, Amur, and Ussuri rivers on the eastern border[1]. Border negotiations were eventually resumed in 1987 at Mikhail Gorbachev's initiation. An agreement was reached on the eastern portion of the border on May 16, 1991, several months before the final dissolution of the USSR. Russia inherited most of the former Sino-Soviet border, and ratified the agreement in February 1992, while the other post-Soviet republics negotiated separate border agreements.
Full details ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sino-Soviet_Border_Agreement
May that shed a little light on possible Sino-India territorial solutions?