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Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-05-28): In terms of bilateral cooperation, promises were made and documents signed. These covered economic relations, cultural links (Putin spent the second day of his trip in Harbin), media (Xinhua partnered up with several Russian media agencies), and softening the border by establishing a cross-border reserve for big cats and jointly developing Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (Heixiazi Dao). The last point is particularly curious, as there was public outrage in Russia last year over official People’s Republic of China maps’ demarcation of the island as fully Chinese despite a 2008 agreement to divide the disputed island between the two countries.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-10): Consider next Southeast Asia. China's Ministry of Natural Resources recently released the new "standard" official map that lays claim to almost all the South China Sea and parts of land that are currently in India and Russia. The reaction by those countries whose sovereignty was ignored was quick and pointed. Those countries in the South China Sea that lay claims to land features ignored by China's map rejected China's "unilateral claims" and said the map is "not binding." And India accused China's claims as having no basis and said the map "only complicate[s] the resolution of the boundary question." Only Russia has yet to respond. But it should be noted that China's claims over Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island in Russia are in direct conflict with an agreement the two countries signed two decades ago.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-06): In the far northeastern corner of China on the border with Russia, it shows Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, an island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers, as Chinese territory, even though the countries signed an agreement nearly 20 years ago to split the island.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-04): China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan's government rejects those claims, saying only the island's people can decide their future. Lai's comment were aimed at embarrassing Russia and China who have now buried their territorial differences. [...] Sino-Russian territorial disputes were seemingly resolved via a 2008 treaty when the western half of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island on the Amur River was given to China. However, as early as 2016, Chinese maps were claiming the whole island. Last year in September, in its "New Standard Map", China claimed the entire island in Eastern Russia along the border of the two countries. The entire Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island in Russia’s Amur region has been displayed as Chinese territory in the new map. The island is situated at the confluence of Amur and Ussuri rivers and located close to the Russian city of Khabarovsk making it strategically important.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-02): Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, or Heixiazi, sits at the confluence of two border rivers, and ownership is legally shared between the two countries. China's official map paints the entire 135-square mile piece of strategic land into its easternmost territory.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-10-06): In the days after the PRC’s release of its 2023 map, Russia rejected Beijing’s claim to all of Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island, reported Newsweek magazine. The island, known as Heixiazi, or Black Bear, in Chinese, sits at the confluence of two border rivers, the Ussuri and Amur. After more than a century of territorial dispute, Russia ceded roughly half of the island to the PRC in 2008. Moscow also abandoned its army base there and handed over nearby Tarabarov Island. The PRC agreed in return not to claim more territory from Russia, according to Newsweek.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Chinese investment interests are focused on two key areas. One is the junction of the Amur (Heilongjiang) and Ussuri rivers, where Bolshoy Ussuriysky (Heixiazi) Island and the Russian city of Khabarovsk (with its population of 620,000) are located. The other is near the mouth of the Tumen River, not far from Russia’s great Pacific port of Vladivostok (population 600,000), where the Chinese border lies just 15 kilometers away from the Sea of Japan. In both of these strategic locations, Russia intends to harness China’s financial resources and manufacturing savvy to build two gigantic special economic zones.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-04): "Most of the contention seems to be that it claims Indian territory – Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin – as Chinese territory, but it also claims some territory of Russia [Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island], as well as the entirety of the South China Sea and Taiwan," Malcolm Davis, an Indo-Pacific expert at The Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra. "I believe there is also some suggestion that the way the dashes are drawn near Taiwan could indicate that China also sees Japanese islands in the Ryukyus as its territory. China had claimed the Indian territory, as well as South China Sea and Taiwan previously, but the re-assertion of claims to Russian territory and also the potential for claims to Japanese territory are new," Davis said in an email. "The Indians have reacted angrily and formally protested the Chinese move, and Japan will certainly seek clarification on China’s intentions. Not sure how Russia will respond, given that Moscow needs Beijing’s support in the Ukraine war."
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-07-23): Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced that funding has already been allocated for the construction of a border crossing between Russia and China on Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island in the Khabarovsk Territory. The funds are designated for the construction of the border crossing between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island. During a working visit to Khabarovsk on Monday, the Prime Minister was presented with master plans for Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk. Dmitry Dameshin, the acting governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, while sharing information about these projects, also mentioned plans for joint development of the island with China.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-04): Was China looking to take advantage of Russia's setbacks, under international sanctions and embroiled in its war in Ukraine, to nibble away a few dozen square kilometers? On Monday, August 28, the Ministry of Natural Resources published the 2023 edition of the "National Map of China," an official document that has become the reference regarding "national sovereignty." In the far northeast of the country, China seems to have made Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island its own. Located at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers, this island of around 300 square kilometers has long been a subject of dispute between the two countries. In 1929, Russia occupied the island and prohibited China from navigating that part of the Amur River, which Beijing has always contested. In 2004, however, the two countries reached a compromise: The western part of the island went to China, which could also navigate on the Amur River, but in return, Beijing accepted that the eastern part would go to Russia.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-11-19): Earlier in 2023, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources ordered that new maps must use the former Chinese names of its lost territories in what is now Russia’s Far East. Vladivostok, home to Russia’s Pacific Fleet headquarters, became Haishenwai; Sakhalin Island became Kuyedao. Then in late August, the ministry released a map that showed the disputed Russian territory of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island within China’s borders.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-27): Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island (Russian: Большо́й Уссури́йский о́стров, romanized: Bol'shoy Ussuriyskiy Ostrov), or Heixiazi Island (simplified Chinese: 黑瞎子岛; traditional Chinese: 黑瞎子島; pinyin: Hēixiāzi Dǎo; lit. 'black bear island'[a]), is a sedimentary island at the confluence of the Ussuri and Amur rivers. Since the Sino-Russian Border Agreement that was fully implemented in 2008, Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island was divided between China and Russia. China was given control over part of the island, and Russia retained the rest. Since then, the issue has been peacefully settled, and China no longer claims the entire island. It has an area of about 327 to 350 km2 and is bounded closely by Yinlong/Tarabarov Island, and over 90 islets.[b] Its position at the confluence of the Amur and the Ussuri, and right next to the major Russian city of Khabarovsk, has given it great strategic importance. [...] On October 14, 2004, the Complementary Agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation on the Eastern Section of the China-Russia Boundary was signed, in which Russia agreed to relinquish control over Yinlong Island and around half of Bolshoy Ussuriysky. About 170 square kilometres of Bolshoy Ussuriysky was transferred to mainland China, while the rest remained under Russia's jurisdiction.[citation needed] In return, mainland China agreed to drop all territorial claims to the remainder of Bolshoy Ussuriysky kept by Russia and received the right to navigate ships along the main channel of the Amur.[citation needed]
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-06-19): He first visited the island, known on the Russian side as Bolshoy Ussuriysky, in 2008. At that time, the Chinese had made major improvements to its side, building a large nature reserve, border defenses, including a watchtower, and a bridge from the mainland to the island, Iwashita told Eurasianet in an email interview. [...] In August 2023, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources released a new edition of its "standard map." According to defenseanalysts, it showed Bolshoy Ussuriysky, the Russian part of the island, as Chinese territory. Moscow’s response came three days later. "The Russian and Chinese sides adhere to the common position that the border issue between our countries has been finally resolved," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement. [...] Heixiazi/Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island has been a source of Chinese-Russian tension dating back to the 1858 Treaty of Aigun, under which Russia vastly expanded its Far Eastern territories at China’s expense. From the Chinese perspective, the Aigun pact is counted among the humiliating "unequal treaties" that the imperial government at the time was compelled to sign, granting technologically superior Western powers, including Britain, the United States, France, and Russia, broad economic and territorial concessions.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-06-17): He first visited the island, known on the Russian side as Bolshoy Ussuriysky, in 2008. At that time, the Chinese had made major improvements to its side, building a large nature reserve, border defenses, including a watchtower, and a bridge from the mainland to the island, Iwashita told Eurasianet in an email interview. [...] In August 2023, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources released a new edition of its "standard map." According to defenseanalysts, it showed Bolshoy Ussuriysky, the Russian part of the island, as Chinese territory. Moscow’s response came three days later. "The Russian and Chinese sides adhere to the common position that the border issue between our countries has been finally resolved," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement. [...] Heixiazi/Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island has been a source of Chinese-Russian tension dating back to the 1858 Treaty of Aigun, under which Russia vastly expanded its Far Eastern territories at China’s expense. From the Chinese perspective, the Aigun pact is counted among the humiliating "unequal treaties" that the imperial government at the time was compelled to sign, granting technologically superior Western powers, including Britain, the United States, France and Russia, broad economic and territorial concessions.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island, or Heixiazi Island, is a sedimentary island at the confluence of the Ussuri and Amur rivers. It is divided between the People's Republic of China and Russia. It has an area of about 327 to 350 km2 and is bounded closely by Yinlong Island, and over ninety islets. Its position at the confluence of the Amur and the Ussuri and right next to the major Russian city of Khabarovsk, has given it great strategic importance. Download Download See moreWikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshoy_Ussuriysky_Island
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-01): The maps, recognizing 🇷🇺 Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island )or Heixiazi Island) as fully Chinese territory were released in China😁 — Sviat Hnizdovskyi (@s_hnizdovskyi) August 30, 2023
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-08-31): Unsurprisingly, Taiwan is among the areas of the South China Sea that the new map counts as Chinese territory. China has continuously claimed ownership of the island nation, set up by those escaping the communist revolution in the late 1940s. Jeff Liu, a spokesperson for Taiwan's Foreign Ministry, told reporters on Wednesday that "the People's Republic of China has never ruled Taiwan. That is the fact and the status quo universally recognized by the international community." [...] Russia, which shares a northern border with China, has yet to comment publicly on the revised map. Even though it settled its border dispute with China in 2005 with an agreement ratified by both nations' governments, the new map stakes a claim to Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island—otherwise recognized as part of Russia's eastern territory.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-01): The map touches on multiple territorial disputes, among them Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island, which sits at the confluence of the Ussuri and Amur rivers that separate Russia and China. The island is known as Heixiazi, or Black Bear, in Chinese. [...] "Its settlement was marked by the ratification in 2005 of the Supplementary Agreement on the Russian-Chinese state border on its eastern part, according to which Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island was divided between the parties." "The delimitation and demarcation of our common border has been completed along its entire length (almost 4,300 km [2,670 miles]), including in 2008 on Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island."
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-11-02): Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island on the Amur river is essentially part of Khabarovsk and the Khabarovsk region. Once upon a time, it was home to houses, summer cottages, and agricultural and ship-repair enterprises. Russia and China quarreled over Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island for more than 150 years, after drawing the border along the Amur river. (The river itself belonged to neither country, and the status of its islands remained undetermined.) In 1929, the USSR took complete control of the island, formally putting the territory "under protective custody." During the Second World War, Japanese troops occupied the island, but the Soviet Union later reclaimed it. In 1964, the Chinese government launched negotiations to regain the territory, and these talks only concluded in 2004, when Russia signed an agreement handing over 170 of the island’s 350 square kilometers (65 of 135 square miles). The deal entered force a year later, and the border was fully in place by October 2008. From that moment, Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island has been divided into two parts: one Chinese and the other Russian. [...] Leonkin took an interest in the history of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island in 2004, when the agreement was signed to hand over half the land to China. In 2008, he found an apartment on the island where he could watch developments on the Chinese side.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-08-31): China has published a map that appears to revise its territorial borders to lay claim to large swathes of territory owned by its neighbors, including the island of Bolshoy Ussuriysky, part of which is in Russia. [...] Bolshoy Ussuriysky and the neighboring island of Tarabarov were taken "under protective custody" by Soviet troops in 1929. Both islands remained under Russian control after the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Tarabarov, part of Bolshoy Ussuriysky and some smaller islands—Vinogradov, Koreysky, Romashkin—were handed over to China on October 14, 2008, with experts noting at the time that the move benefited the stability of bilateral relations.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Territorial disputes of the People's Republic of China This article is about territorial disputes of the People's Republic of China (PRC). A territorial dispute is a disagreement over the possession or control of land between two or more political entities. Many of China's territorial disputes result from the historical consequences of colonialism in Asia and the lack of clear historical boundary demarcations. Many of these disputes are almost identical to those that the Republic of China (ROC) based in Taipei, also known as Taiwan, has with other countries. Therefore, many of the subsequent resolved disputes made by the PRC after 1949 with other governments may not be recognized by the ROC.[1] [...] The last unresolved territorial issue between the two countries was settled by the 2004 Complementary Agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation on the Eastern Section of the China–Russia Boundary.[69] Pursuant to that agreement, Russia transferred to China a part of Abagaitu Islet, the entire Yinlong (Tarabarov) Island, about half of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, and some adjacent river islets. The transfer has been ratified by both the Chinese National People's Congress and the Russian State Duma in 2005, thus ending the decades-long border dispute. The official transfer ceremony was held on-site on October 14, 2008.[70] However, in China Standard Map Edition 2023, Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island has been speculated by some journalists to be asserted as Chinese territory by China.[71]
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-08-01): Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island, an outpost on the Amur River in the Far East, was disputed by Russia and China for decades, but it has now been divided almost equally between the neighbors. The Chinese call it Heixiazi Island. Developers have put forward plans to make it an important gateway for trade and travel, but on the Russian side most people live in dilapidated homes with minimal infrastructure.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-05-05): The island is divided in almost equal sections between Russia and China. The Soviet Union occupied the whole of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (known as Heixiazi, or Black Bear, in Chinese) following the so-called Chinese Eastern Railway Incident of 1929, but in an historic agreement between Russia and China signed in 2004, Moscow agreed to return about half of it. The transfer took place in 2008. Since then the island in the Ussuri has become a miniature symbol of the vast Asian regions divided between the two geopolitical giants. [...] In fact, the decision to transfer half of the island to China originally met with heavy protests. Members of the Khabarovsk City Council insisted that Bolshoy Ussuriysky was of vital importance to defend the city in case of Chinese aggression. In 2005 tens of thousand of signatures against the transfer were quickly collected and sent to Moscow, but the decision had been taken.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-11-19): Earlier in 2023, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources ordered that new maps must use the former Chinese names of its lost territories in what is now Russia’s Far East. Vladivostok, home to Russia’s Pacific Fleet headquarters, became Haishenwai; Sakhalin Island became Kuyedao. Then in late August, the ministry released a map that showed the disputed Russian territory of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island within China’s borders.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2001-06-12): On 2 March 1969, the Sino-Soviet border dispute took an exceptionally violent turn when Chinese forces fired on Soviet border troops patrolling Zhenbao (Damanski), an island on the Ussuri River; some 50 Soviet soldiers were killed.2 Although this early State Department report is agnostic as to who sparked the fighting, apparently the Chinese initiated the clash in response to earlier Soviet provocations along the border. State Department analysts correctly opined that neither Beijing nor Moscow sought major conflict.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-03): China maintains that Taiwan has been a part of Chinese territory since ancient times. After the Qing dynasty was forced to cede Taiwan to Japan in 1895, the island was returned to the Republic of China in 1945, following Japan’s defeat in World War II. [...] The map also added a tenth dash to its South China Sea claims and depicted Aksai Chin (claimed by India, controlled by China) and Arunachal Pradesh (claimed by China, controlled by India)) as Chinese territories. Notably, it included the entire Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, which is partly Russian territory. This action was unexpected, considering that the Sino-Russian border had been distinctly established in 2005 when the two nations designated Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island to be divided.
Claim: Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is a territory of People's Republic of China (Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-11-14): Earlier in 2023, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources ordered that new maps must use the former Chinese names of its lost territories in what is now Russia’s Far East. Vladivostok, home to Russia’s Pacific fleet headquarters, became Haishenwai; Sakhalin Island became Kuyedao. Then in late August, the ministry released a map that showed the disputed Russian territory of Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island within China’s borders.