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Provincial Border Threatens Conflict Among Communists
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analys
UPI Foreign News Analyst A key area of potential conflict between the Soviet Union and Red China is the border which divides the U.S.S.R.'s Kazakhstan Republic and Sinkiang, the huge province which is the wild west of China. Clashes between frontier guards have been frequent.
Latest reports from Moscow say Moslem tribesmen are fleeing Sinkiang into Kazakhstan at the rate of 1,200 a month.
THE CHINESE HAVE accused the Russians of kidnapping thousands of Turkic-speaking Uigar, Kazakh and Khirghizian tribesmen from across the Sinkiang border. On their side, the Russians have accused the Chinese of systematically persecuting minority populations.
Two reasons make the area a favorite subject of speculation among those who see the possibility of future armed conflict between the two Communist giants.
One is that a huge segment of the Kazakhstan Republic is shown on present-day Chinese maps as properly belonging to China.
ery belonging.
The Russians got it in 1864 through the treaty of Chuguchak, one of those "unjust" treaties by which the Red Chinese accuse western powers of carving up imperialist China.
A SECOND IS THAT Nomadic Moslem tribesmen inhabit both sides of the border, traditionally flowing back and forth depending on pres-
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Fifteen years ago when the Red Chinese took over the China mainland, Russia easily could have seized Sinkiang Province, a vast area of more than 700,000 square miles composed of desert, towering mountains, howling winds, forests, some rich valleys and important minerals.
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Instead, the late Josef Stalin made a deal in which the Russians were to share in exploitation of Sinkiang's resources which include both uranium and oil.
IN RETURN, THE Chinese agreed to allow the Uigurs, Kazakhs and others in China to use the Russian language employed by their kinsmen just over the boundary in the Soviet Union.
RECENT CHINESE broadcasts have hinted that large units of the Red Chinese army have been moved into the province.
Modern farms run by army personnel were credited with boosting the province's grain output by 20 per cent in 1963 over 1962.
The broadcasts reported the reclamation of 100,000 acres of wasteland and irrigation facilities extended to another 150,000 acres. Consumer goods produced in Sinkiang also were reported on the upswing.
Russian consulates were closed. The tribesmen were told they would have to learn to write all over again, this time in the Latin alphabet.
By 1958 things were changing. The Chinese halted construction of a trans-Sinkiang highway which would have given the Russians greater access to the province.
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Sinkiang also is the center of a vast resettlement program. The Chinese population there is reported to have jumped from 300,000 to more than 2,000,000 since the Communists took over.
Sinkiang's future is more promising than its present. Meanwhile, the Chinese are taking out insurance.
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