You have to wonder if the Chinese (with their long view of history) see Russia's current hold on Siberia as some sort of temporary aberration.
They dont care this article is base on a classic propaganda that came since 2 years exactly when Russia has made is pivot towards Asia.
It also play slowly but unotice that the Chinese are a yellow Peril for the Russian wich is absurd will China annex Mongolia?
http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=60357
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Aigun, Russia, and China’s “Century of Humiliation”
Treaty of Aigun by Vasily Romanov. Source: N.I. Grodekov Khabarovsk Territorial Museum/hkm.ru
Posted by: IGOR DENISOVWEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015РУССКИЙPRINT PAGE
On May 18th the Heilongjiang Daily announced that a neighborhood and village currently part of Heihe, a city which sits across the Amur River from Russia’s Blagoveshchensk, would be renamed “Aigun.” The article said that the decision was meant to promote regional tourism and help preserve memories of the town’s “bitter history” for eternity.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
On May 28, 1858, Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky and Yishan, an envoy of the Beijing government, met in the settlement of Aigun, on the right bank of the Amur River. It was there that they signed a treaty transferring territory on the Amur’s left bank to Russia. China got to keep the right bank as far as the Ussuri (Wusuli) River. For a time, who the Ussuriisky Region belonged to was an open question—according to the agreement, the land came under the joint administration of both countries. Most historians in China consider the Treaty of Aigun (along with the Treaties of Peking and Tientsin) inequitable, arguing that a strong Russia forced a weak China to accept an unfair deal.
As the Chinese-Russian friendship blossomed in the 1950s, Aigun shed its historical name. The Soviet and Chinese “brotherly nations” sought to forget historical grievances, at least on paper. Around the same time, a town that had been named Otpor (meaning “resistance" in Russian) in memory of the conflict along the Chinese Eastern railway adopted a more neutral name, Zabaikalsk.
In China, they adopted a more clever approach, toeing the official line by avoiding acknowledgment of unfair treaties without openly objecting to them. New but similar-sounding characters were selected, forming the name “Aihui.” Nobody officially voiced political motivations behind the name change, but instead tactfully insisted that the old characters had been replaced because they were too rare and therefore simply too difficult to write.
It’s surprising that this new, “simpler” name, assigned in 1956, withstood the Cultural Revolution. During that period Chinese propaganda regularly cast incidents on the Sino-Soviet border as expansionist forays by Russia’s “new Tsars.” Likewise, unfair treaties forced upon China by imperialist Russia, including the Treaty of Aigun, were often mentioned—but still nobody thought to restore the name Aigun to the town.
Indirectly, this supports the idea that Mao Zedong’s oft-cited proclamation that the Soviet Union owed China 1.5 million square kilometers was little more than an emotional ploy or a tactical maneuver designed to speed up border negotiations with the USSR. The propaganda said one thing, but in actual fact China never raised the question of reclaiming Siberia or Russia’s Far East in laborious border talks with the Soviet Union. The Chinese authorities understood that such claims were delusive. Mao Zedong soon contradicted himself by asserting: “I never said that more than a million square kilometers must be returned to China. I only said that this was something that happened. There were unfair treaties that China was forced to accept.”
Of course even with the normalization of relations between Moscow and Beijing, it was impossible to ignore this sore subject. Deng Xiaoping’s call on May 16, 1989 to “close the past” in Sino-Soviet relations alluded, among other matters, to territorial claims. The Chinese leader reiterated the traditional belief that the agreements had been unfair, but he let his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev know that bygones could be bygones, and that the USSR and China could put these problems behind them.
The recent restoration of the name Aigun can be seen in the framework favored by certain Russian experts: China has simply bottled up its grievances against Russia, and will inevitably assert them again. However, starting from Jiang Zemin, each new Chinese leader has emphasized that the question of the Russian-Chinese border is officially closed, and there is no reason to doubt that they are sincere.
Furthermore, any admission that the Sino-Russian border treaties were unjust would undermine the legitimacy of the communist party, implying that Chinese party leaders had knowingly accepted a disadvantageous deal with Moscow and sacrificed national interests. Incidentally, this is exactly how radical Chinese nationalists interpret the history of relations between China and post-Soviet Russia, and a similar attitude is expressed on websites and printed publications by the outlawed organization, Falun Gong
"I dont need to expand on what is Falung Gung"