High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prior to the 1600s China and Russia were separated by Siberia. By about 1640 Russian settlers had conquered most of Siberia and founded settlements in the Amur River basin. From 1652 to 1689, China's armies drove the Russian settlers out, but after 1689 China and Russia made peace and established trade agreements. By the mid-1800s China lagged behind technologically and financially, so it signed unequal treaties with Russia and other Western powers, by which Russia annexed the Amur basin and Vladivostok. China's weak position led to the 1911 Xinhai revolution: the revolutionaries deposed the emperor and founded the Republic of China. However, China's president Yuan Shikai was forced to sign further unequal treaties with Russia and with other Western nations. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по...