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ORAC
The eventual full price of the SMO might be starting to become clearer…..
You might have never heard of cities called "Khaishenvai", "Boli" or "Shuangchenzi" as well as the island of "Quedao", because that are the official names according the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources for Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Ussuriysk and Sakhalin, "newly" introduced.….
Interesting. The red circle marks where the 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict took place. The main railway runs roughly North-South down to Vladivostok close alongside the Russian side of the border.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-S...order_conflict