discussed the methods and procedures for settling future disputes. Convention of Kyakhta (1768) On 18October 1768 a Convention was signed modifying Article X of the original treaty making punishments more explicit. This was due to the Qing extermination of the Dzungar Khanate, which caused rebels including Amursana to flee across the border, and other problems which led the Chinese to curtail trade in 1762 and suspend it in 1765. Kyakhta International Protocol (1792) The Kyakhta trade between Qing and Russia was very important to Russia as one of its main sources of income. The Qing was aware of this and occasionally used to suspend the trade to exert pressure on the Russian rulers. In 1784 some Russian Buryats and the Uriankhais of the Qing together robbed the Chinese merchant in the Khövsgöl region. The Russian way of punishing the robbers irritated the Qing side and became a new reason to suspend the trade for 7 years. Over these seven years before the two empires came to mutual agreement many events occurred that expose problems in the relations between them. On 8 February 1792, they signed the "International Protocol" (known as "恰克圖市約" in Chinese) in Kyakhta which confirmed the validity of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Kyakhta. See also Treaty of Kulja (1851) Treaty of Tarbagatai (1864) Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881) Notes References Sources Further reading Mancall, Mark. Russia and China: Their Diplomatic Relations to 1728. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. March, G. Patrick. 'Eastern Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific',1996 Perdue, Peter C. China marches west: The Qing conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Peresvetova, Julianna (January, 1998). Sino-Soviet Amur Conflict, The Inventory of Conflict & Environment Case Studies, American University, Washington DC. Accessed 23 April 2005. Widmer, Eric. The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking During the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: East Asian Research Center, 1976. 1727 treaties China–Russia treaties Treaties of the Russian Empire Kyakhta History of Mongolia History of Manchuria 1727 in China 1727 in the Russian Empire China–Russian Empire relations