...party members in Peking on July 10, 1963, Mao said, "About a hundred years ago, the area to the east of Baikal became Russian territory, and since then Vladivostok,...territory. We have not yet presented our account for this list."15 Mao's sweeping territorial claims on some one and a half million square kilometers of Soviet...

...against the Soviet Union. Mao told a visiting Japanese delegation: 'About a hundred years ago, the area east of [Lake] Baikal became Russian territory, and...territory. We have not yet presented our account for this list.' 30 Again, as with the case of Mongolia, even though the Chinese side came to enjoy tremendous...

...former Russian governments that they had helped overthrow. This prompted Mao to tell a Japanese visitor: "About a hundred years ago, the area to the east of...Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka, and other areas have become Soviet territory. We have not yet presented our bill for this list."6' The USSR denied that...

...tormer Russian govemments that they had helped overthrow. This prompted Mao to tell a Japanese visitot: "About a hundred years ago, the area to the east of [Lake] Batkal became Russian territory and since then Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka, and other areas...

...including portions of Russia's Siberia and scores of islands east and south of the PRC. Said Mao in 1964, "About a hundred years ago, the area to the east of...territory. We have not yet presented our account for this list."32 If China becomes a superpower, the account will be presented. By 1973, Mao seemed to have...

...years ago the area to the east of Baikal became Russian territory, since then Vladivostok, Khaborovsk, Kamchatka, and other areas have been Soviet territory. We have not yet presented our account for this list" (cited in Cohen and Chiu 1974: 447). In sum, the Chinese approach to territorial sovereignty...

...contents. ''3 Later that year, Mao stated, "About a hundred years ago, the area to the east of the Baikal became Russian territory, and since then Vladivostok,...territory. We have not yet presented our account for this list."52 These Chinese statements were of considerable concern to the Soviets, who took them as clear...

...1964 to a visiting delegation of Japanese socialists that "about a hundred years ago the area east of Baikal became Russian territory, and since then Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and other areas have become territories of the Soviet Union. We have not yet," the Chairman continued, "presented the bill...