Beschrijving

In 1969, Soviet and Chinese soldiers fought pitched battles over a frozen island smaller than a suburban shopping mall. Both nations had been communist allies just a decade earlier. Within three years, Mao Zedong would be toasting Richard Nixon in Beijing, executing one of the most audacious geopolitical realignments in modern history.

The story of Russia and China is not a tale of enduring friendship or permanent enmity. It is four centuries of collision, calculation, and reinvention along the longest continuous land border on Earth. Emperors traded away entire provinces over caravan routes and fur pelts, while revolutionaries swore eternal brotherhood only to nearly annihilate each other with nuclear fire.

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