Timeline for Why did the Soviet Union not "grant" Inner Mongolia to Mongolia after World War Two?
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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. | |
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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 |