Canadian journalist and author Diane Francis believes that China is also preparing to take back a slice of land in the far east of Russia. Speaking to Times Radio, she explained how the war in ...

They want Manchuria back, and they are going to get it. "The minute there is weakness, they will move. Not necessarily with ...

The Treaty of Aigun in 1858 forced China to cede much of Manchuria to the Russian Tsar Alexander II. The territory, comprising some 600,000 square kilometres, is part of Russia's Far East and ...

World War I, the Russian Revolution, and then the Bolshevik Revolution produced refugees who lost their homes and livelihoods. Nearly 1 million fled the country. Many Russians who ended up in Siberia ...

China, not Ukraine, constitutes Russia’s existential threat. In the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), Nicholas II fought Japan over Manchuria for concessions that Russia could not monetize ...

Russia's international isolation was starkly ... of the act and launched a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria, where Japan established its puppet state of Manchukuo.

And how did that develop? There were eight Russian Jewish communities in Manchuria and north China, Harbin (the capitol of Manchuria) being the largest. The Japanese saw these Russian Jewish ...

In 1904 war broke out between Russia and Japan. They were fighting for control over Korea and Manchuria. The war was a disaster for the Tsarist Empire. In January 1905 the Russian held port of ...

Japan had become concerned that Russian expansion of the Trans-Siberian Railway into Chinese Manchuria could threaten Korea. China was weak and Japan had an interest in acquiring land for herself.