Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border
Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border
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边境遭遇:俄罗斯、中国和蒙古边境的知识与实践
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10.11647/obp.0026.02
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2012
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Billé F
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Billé F
Following Liberation and the installation of a communist government in 1949, China set out to resolve numerous border disputes with neighbouring countries. Between 1960 and 1963, China settled outstanding territorial disagreements with North Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A number of other border disputes have been resolved more recently, particularly with territories formerly included in the Soviet Union. In 1991, China signed the Sino-Soviet Border Agreement, which brought to an end longstanding territorial disputes with Russia and led to a final agreement in October 2004 (Foucher 2007: 33). Delimitation agreements have also been signed over the last two decades with Central Asian countries adjacent to China, namely with Kyrgyzstan in 1996, Kazakhstan in 1994 and Tajikistan in 1999 (Pan 2009: 95). If in several of these agreements China frequently flexed her political muscles–claiming as hers significant areas of Tajik, Kazakh and Kyrgyz territory in the process–these demarcation efforts also index a willingness to put to rest outstanding disputes and to normalise border relations with her neighbours. Indeed, if normalisation of borders is essential to the development of border trade, and therefore financially advantageous (Simmons 2005: 842‒43), China’s participation in territorial resolutions clearly signals her desire to portray herself as good-neighbourly (Lukin 2009, Tang, Li and Acharya 2009). As Fravel notes,“China’s compromises have often been substantial, as it has usually offered to accept less than