CHINA AND RUSSIA - RESOURCES AND FACE. FRIDAY'S EDITION

The Long Game: How China Is Taking Back What Russia Took - Series 12 #5

China lost face when it lost territory at gunpoint to Russia and other nations in the 1860s. Face in the cultural sense is not vanity. Face is standing, where you rank among nations, whether others must come to you or you must go to them. China regains face when that territory returns. But face alone does not explain China’s strategy to regain lost terr…