CCP China's rare right to use Vladivostok as China's domestic port from 1 June 2023

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China's rare right to use Vladivostok draws attention

Putin presents Vladivostok to Xi Jinping to expose Jiang Zemin's crime of treason

Editor : Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/05/16/a103714144.html / Image : On 20 March 2023, Xi Jinping issued a document criticizing the United States before visiting Russia, saying that he and Putin are fellows. The picture shows on 16 September 2022, Putin (left) and Xi Jinping talked at the Shanghai Cooperation Leaders Summit. (Sergei Bobylyov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

CCP China and Russia reached a rare agreement a few days ago. Starting from 1 June 2023, Russia will allow China to use the port of Vladivostok. Foreign media analysis believes that this is a gift from Putin, who was caught in the quagmire of the Russia-Ukraine war, and was forced to give Xi Jinping Vladivostok, China's original territory, but it was sold to Russia during Jiang Zemin's administration.

Announcement No. 44 of 2023 recently issued by the General Administration of Customs of the Communist Party of China stated that the port of Vladivostok, Russia, was added as a "transit port for cross-border transportation of domestic trade goods". From 1 June 2023, Vladivostok (Haishenwei in Chinese) officially becomes a transit port for cross-border transportation of domestic goods in China.

This means that after a lapse of more than 160 years, Russia has reopened important hub ports to China, and the inland areas of Northeast China will open access to the sea.

Since then, the goods transported to the inland from cities in Northeast China will greatly save transportation time and cost. In the past, when goods from the three northeastern provinces were shipped to inland cities in China, they were usually first shipped to the port of Liaoning Province, 1,000 km away, for shipment. However, using the nearby Vladivostok, the distance is only about 200 km.

Some analysts believe that China regaining the right to use Vladivostok means that China and Russia have their own plans. Because Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine and was continuously sanctioned by Europe and the United States, it was forced to send this gift to Xi Jinping for greater convenience.

South Korea's "Chosun Ilbo" reported on 16 May 2023 that the reason why Russia gave China such a large "gift" was because it urgently needed China's help when the Ukrainian war severely consumed its national strength. Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it was the world's largest exporter of natural gas. However, as the "big customers" of Western countries fell out with Russia after the war, Russia began to completely rely on exports to the Chinese Communist market.

In fact, Haishenwei was originally a territory of China but it was ceded to Russia during the Qing Dynasty, and was later renamed "Vladivostok" by Russia, which means "conquest of the East". Since then, the Russian Pacific Fleet Command has also been stationed here, and China is not allowed to use it.

It is worth noting that successive Chinese governments since the Republic of China did not recognize the above-mentioned unequal treaties signed by the Qing government. However, after Jiang Zemin became the leader of the Communist Party of China, he formally signed the "Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation" with Russia in 1999. The Narrative Protocol on the East and West Paragraphs of the Sino-Russian Boundary assigned a large area of Chinese land, including Vladivostok, to Russia.

According to "Jiang Zemin and His Person", on 9 December 1999, Jiang Zemin secretly signed the "Protocol" (on the Sino-Russian border), even the then Minister of National Defense Chi Haotian was not allowed to intervene. Chi Haotian heard some news later and asked about the treaty, but he received the People's Daily on 11 December 1999. The official introduction to the treaty on it was only a short introduction of more than 100 characters.

In the "Protocol", Jiang Zemin sold more than 1 million square kilometers of Chinese territory, which is equivalent to the total area of the three northeastern provinces, and also equivalent to dozens of Taiwan; Jiang Zemin also assigned the Tumen River to Russia, sealing off China's mouth of the Northeast leading to the Sea of Japan.

Statistics from NTDTV's "Hundred Years of Truth" program show that during Jiang Zemin's reign, he sold a large area of China's territory to Russia, some Central Asian countries, Vietnam, etc., with an area of more than 1.7 million square km, equivalent to more than 40 Taiwan.