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The difficulty in settling this dispute involved competing interests between Russia and China. To settle the boundary along the lines claimed by China would have subjected settled parts of the city of
Khabarovsk to the range of artillery emplaced on Heixiazi. However, by occupying the entire island,
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Yinlong (Tarabarov Island) (just above the center of the picture) and the Bolshoy Ussuriysky (Heixiazi) Island (runs from the center of the picture to the right edge of the frame). The international border apparently is visible in the picture as a diagonal line (compare to its display on Google
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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. In return, mainland China agreed to drop all
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According to a 2002 study by
Iwashita Akihiro, a Japanese specialist on Slavic relations, “Most of Khabarovsk’s local elites, in particular military, considered the islands of strategic importance since they fenced off Khabarovsk from China. If the border was drawn, relying upon the ‘main channel
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by the mainland
Chinese and Russian Foreign Ministers that finalized the border demarcation and formally ended negotiations. Under the agreement, Russia would transfer approximately 174 km of territory to mainland China. The transfer took place on October 14, 2008. The area transferred to
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principle’, the two islands would have passed to China. This is why the Soviet Union insisted on the legal exceptionality of the two islands in its negotiations with China during the late 1980s, while strengthening its de facto control of these islands".
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lay along the Amur and Ussuri rivers. As such, the island at the confluence of the two rivers was
Chinese. Until 2004, Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy Island was the site of a territorial dispute between mainland China and Russia. The
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and overseas that are outside the control of the mainland
Chinese government criticized the PRC for signing the agreement, which they regarded as sealing as permanent the loss of former Chinese territory such as
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Russia controlled the entire Amur and Ussuri waterway and gave
Khabarovsk a comfortable buffer zone. During its control of the island, Russia refused navigational access to the Amur and Ussuri to Chinese ships.
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with fifteen other nations, the way Russia responds will be closely watched, especially since this is the first time in over a decade China and Russia have had this kind of dispute.
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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.
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forcefully occupied Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy and Yinlong Islands in 1929 in the wake of a Russo-Manchurian conflict, but this was not accepted by
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