Between 1858 and 1860, the time of the Unequal Treaties, Russia took more territory from China than any other foreign power. Over one million square kilometers. Vladivostok. Khabarovsk. Sakhalin Island and the entire Pacific coastline from the Amur River to the Korean border. The Qing dynasty, weakened by the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion, signed…
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