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Re: Chinese debate...
>Chinese debate value of Sino-Russian landmark treaty
>Foreign Affairs News Keywords: RUSSIA CHINA TREATY
>Source: Singapore Straits Times
>Published: July 18, 2001 Author: Ching Cheong
>Posted on 07/17/2001 20:24:15 PDT by DeaconBenjamin
>BEIJING - China and Russia signed a landmark treaty on Monday, in which they hoped to lay the foundation for lasting peace between the two nations.
>Yet Chinese scholars are bitterly divided over the value of the Good Neighbourly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in serving China's strategic and national interests.
>Essentially, the issue boils down to one basic question: How trustworthy are the Russians?
>Supporters of the new treaty claim that the most important national interest of China is economic development. To this end, it needs a peaceful external environment.
>Since Russia is China's largest neighbour, it is extremely important that there is peace between them.
>'Without a peaceful neighbour, any talk about economic development is futile,' said an informed Chinese scholar, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
>'At the height of the Sino-Soviet tensions in 1967, as much as 60 to 70 per cent of the state budget was spent on defence because the country had to maintain a 15-million-strong troop,' he recalled.
>'All the heavy industries in the three north-eastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning - the most developed industrial regions of China at that time - had to be moved to the far remote western interior for fear of war.
>'This resulted in huge economic losses of several hundred billion yuan,' he noted.
Любопытно оказаывается СССР Китаю нанес невероятный ущерб угрожая войной.. Причем Китай опасается России даже сейчас..
Выходит им уже ЕСТЬ что терять? Это придает некую уверенность что Китай врядли полезет в Сибирь..
>With the friendship treaty in place, the situation has changed completely.
>Both sides have now agreed to build a demilitarised zone extending 100 km from each side of the border for the full stretch of the 4,000-km border.
Действительно отвели войска? А куда? На дальнем же некуда отводить?
>The total troop strength required to police the border is reduced drastically to only about 150,000, a sharp drop from the one million troops that used to be stationed along the border.
То есть войск теперь нет на границе?