TAIPEI — If China's claims on Taiwan are about territorial integrity then it should also take back land from Russia signed over by the last Chinese dynasty in the 19th century, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said in an interview with Taiwanese media.
Lai said that what China really wants to do with its designs on Taiwan is to change the rules-based international order.TAIPEI — If China's claims on Taiwan are about territorial integrity then it should also take back land from Russia signed over by the last Chinese dynasty in the 19th century, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said in an interview with Taiwanese media.
China's Qing dynasty, then in terminal decline, originally refused to ratify the treaty but it was affirmed two years later in the Convention of Peking, one of what China refers to as the "unequal" treaties with foreign powers in the 19th Century. "The Treaty of Aigun signed during the Qing — you can ask Russia but you don't. So it's obvious they don't want to invade Taiwan for territorial reasons."
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