Tectonic Dispatch·Oct 25Beijing and moscow bury the aigun question as border trade hits recordChinese state media now calls Vladivostok "Haishenwai" again, but 2025 bilateral trade of $244 billion keeps the irredentist argument off…
Tectonic Dispatch·Sep 23Russia's far east population falls below 8 million as heilongjiang's shrinks fasterThe 4,300-kilometer border now hosts a demographic race neither side is winning, but Chinese provincial decline is outpacing Russian…A response icon1A response icon1