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The border disputes between China and the former Soviet Union date back to the end of World War II. In 1969, at the disputed border area in Manchuria, a small island on the Ussuri River, the conflict between China and the Soviet Union escalated into military fighting, with several dozen soldiers killed or wounded.
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Pradt, T. (2020). Territorial Disputes in Central Asia. In: The Prequel to China's New Silk Road. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4708-9_4
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