Skip to main content
14 events
when toggle format what by license comment
S Sep 23, 2019 at 3:01 history edited Lars Bosteen CC BY-SA 4.0
Improve grammar
S Sep 23, 2019 at 3:01 history suggested CJ Dennis CC BY-SA 4.0
Improve grammar
Sep 23, 2019 at 2:37 review Suggested edits
S Sep 23, 2019 at 3:01
Sep 22, 2019 at 3:00 history tweeted twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1175605722912083968
Sep 22, 2019 at 1:33 comment added Russell McMahon @DenisdeBernardy "Chinese territory" is a 'rather fluid concept'. History sides with the victor, for the moment. I've seen it argued that China has greater historical claims to the Koreas than to eg Xinjiang or Tibet. India and China have differences on some border areas.
Sep 21, 2019 at 20:25 history became hot network question
Sep 21, 2019 at 16:10 answer added Suzdalia timeline score: 35
Sep 21, 2019 at 15:06 comment added LаngLаngС @SJuan76 Don't forget that the CPC is practically (in terms of early personnel) an offshoot of the Kuomintang and in terms of 'national territory' of China, and both parties seen as allies for the SU at times, both would be quite cross (seen later in border wars with SU or how they saw/see HK, Macao, Formosa… I can't source much backup for all that now, but if you can, esp with sources from SU side, go…
Sep 21, 2019 at 12:58 comment added SJuan76 As I explained before, an educated guess is that there was little to gain by giving some more land (AFAIK with little industry or resources) to Mongolia and much to lose if the move alienated the Chinese and made them rally around the Kuomintang (that early had been in good terms with the SU until they clashed when the SU annexed Tannu Tuva in 1944).
Sep 21, 2019 at 12:51 comment added Suzdalia @DenisdeBernardy: Ok, if you think they (would have) never considered it because of those reasons you've outlined, that's an answer too. (I said I would appreciate best an answer informed from actual Soviet sources, but I do appreciated informed deductions as well.)
Sep 21, 2019 at 12:49 comment added Denis de Bernardy Yeah, but at the same time China wasn't the enemy. If anything China was an ally -- or two allies, if you count Mao's (Soviet friendly) communist revolutionaries as a separate polity. Japan was the enemy.
Sep 21, 2019 at 12:42 comment added Suzdalia @DenisdeBernardy: (1) In 1945 it wasn't at all clear that Chiang Kai-shek would not be the eventual winner/ruler in China. and (2) Mongolia had laid claim to Inner Mongolia. The Soviets/Mongols could have fairly easily established some puppet state in Inner Mongolia, methinks, had they wanted to... (3) Part of the population of Inner Mongolia would have probably approved on ethnic grounds.
Sep 21, 2019 at 12:35 comment added Denis de Bernardy I'm somewhat confused by the premise behind the question... Why would the Soviet Union grant Chinese territory to Mongolia?
Sep 21, 2019 at 12:23 history asked Suzdalia CC BY-SA 4.0