evidence: China has historical claims to Vladivostok, as it was handed over to Imperial Russia in 1860 under the Treaty of Beijing. The treaty provided that the border between China and Russia was along the Amur and Ussuri rivers, with Russia getting access to Vladivostok, a key port city in the Far East. Some Chinese nationalists have formed a movement in recent years demanding that Russia return Vladivostok to China. These demands turned even more heated following Vladimir Putin’s interview. [...] Chinese politics is an endless trick, Sun Tzu said. Chinese history textbooks emphasize that most of Siberia, with Western Siberia right up to the Tomsk region, is a Chinese territory, lost temporarily. And Chinese bookstores offer geographic maps where Russia’s territory (Primorye, Sakhalin Island, Eastern Siberia, etc.) is shown as allegedly belonging to China since the first Qin dynasty in the 3rd century BC. [...] Putin, in October 2004, voluntarily handed over the Tarabarov Islands, parts of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island in the Khabarovsk Territory, and Bolshoy Island in the Chita Region. All these islands were of strategic importance.