Posted on 08/08/2020 9:32:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 2011, Tajikistan ceded 1,000 square kilometers of territory to China in return for some debt forgiveness. In July this year, an article in Chinese news outlets claimed that Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains historically belonged to China and should be returned. That article unsettled the Tajik government.
How much territory is involved? An easy way to find out is to look up China’s borders on Google Earth and Google Maps. Google is infested with Chinese employees whose greatest loyalty is to their motherland. So on Google Earth, normally a border is marked with a yellow line. Where China wants some of a neighboring country’s territory, it is marked with a red line. On Google Maps, the marking is a solid black line and a dashed black line respectively.
Some chunky bits of territory are involved such as the 83,000 square kilometres of the state of Arunchal Pradesh in northeast India, entirely marked with red lines by Google Earth. Despite whatever the Chinese government might say, we can take it that the red lines and dashed lines on Google products are the real extent of China’s territorial ambitions against its neighbors, in the near term at least.
On the other side of China from Tajikistan, one of the turning points in history may soon be upon us. According to this article, China has told Japan that it will be sending a lot of fishing boats to the Senkaku Islands and will be assuming control of the Senkakus. In an online briefing, the commander of U.S. forces in Japan said that a lot of Chinese fishing boats might be coming after mid-August. And so in just over a week from now China’s “aggressive and malign” activities might be ramped up
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China concerns me far more than the USSR ever did...and they did concern me.
They seem more reckless and willing to dance.
Or maybe it is just a lot of bravado..don’t know
Seems to me like this is to put pressure and help set the stage on the takeover of Taiwan, which China clearly intends to absorb. China will worry about Japan much later, after Taiwan has joined the borg.
Before this, if my life had depended on knowing where the Pamir mountains were..I wouldn’t be here :)
Thanks for the map
Now I have to go look up on wiki what the hell Tajikistan is :) Obviously a country but I want to read a little about its history.
If Biden wins, China moves on Taiwan during the transition period. Political cover: demands from the D’s that Pence and Trump resign immediately to let Nancy Pelosi become president.
China has territorial disputes with 18 countries.
Good grief!!!
18 chances for something to go very wrong.
Seems like they want to be an empire.
US is standing in the way of that.
But combined, some of those countries could put put up a decent fight against China...thinking India, etc.
I dunno
as for attacking Japan especially, perhaps the Chinese regime may wish to review Sun Tzu’s advice from 2500 years ago:
“There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.”
China has told Japan that it will be sending a lot of fishing boats to the Senkaku Islands
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And 250 Chinese fishing vessels will be raping Ecuador’s Galapagos islands - just for the distraction, and fun
The Republic of Tajikistan is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an area of 143,100 km2 (55,300 sq mi)[5][6][7] and an estimated population of 9,537,645 people.[8] It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north and China to the east. The traditional homelands of the Tajik people include present-day Tajikistan as well as parts of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
The territory that now constitutes Tajikistan was previously home to several ancient cultures, including the city of Sarazm[13] of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including the Oxus Valley Civilisation, Andronovo Culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Vedic religion[disambiguation needed], Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Islam. The area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties, including the Achaemenid Empire, Sasanian Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Samanid Empire and the Mongol Empire. After being ruled by the Timurid dynasty and the Khanate of Bukhara, the Timurid Renaissance flourished. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire and subsequently by the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country’s modern borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929.[14]
On 9 September 1991, Tajikistan became an independent sovereign nation when the Soviet Union disintegrated. A civil war was fought almost immediately after independence, lasting from 1992 to 1997. Since the end of the war, newly established political stability and foreign aid have allowed the country’s economy to grow. Like all other Central Asian neighbouring states, the country, led by President Emomali Rahmon since 1994, has been criticised by a number of non-governmental organizations for authoritarian leadership, corruption and widespread violations of human rights, including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, an increasing lack of religious freedom and other civil liberties, and worsening political repression.[15]
Tajikistan is a presidential republic consisting of four provinces. Most of Tajikistan’s population belongs to the Tajik ethnic group,[16] who speak Tajik (a dialect of Persian). Russian is used as the inter-ethnic language. While the state is constitutionally secular, Islam is practiced by 98% of the population. In the Gorno-Badakhshan oblast, despite its sparse population, there is large linguistic diversity where Rushani, Shughni, Ishkashimi, Wakhi and Tajik are some of the languages spoken. Mountains cover more than 90% of the country. It has a transition economy that is highly dependent on remittances, aluminium and cotton production. Tajikistan is a member of the United Nations, CIS, OSCE, OIC, ECO, SCO and CSTO as well as an NATO PfP partner.
biden wins, good bye Tajikistan,and Taiwan, and Korea, etc....biden will let the world be taken over by his friends....
Good idea. China needs more muslims!
You notice the coward Chinese don’t try to expand into Outer Manchuria Russia. The land belonged to China until the Russians annexed it.
Why don’t the Chinks try and take it back, hum?
Tajikistan seems to have the lowest per-capita income of any country which was formerly part of the USSR, although Kyrgystan’s is only slightly higher. (Both are higher than Afghanistan’s.)
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