Abstract

The River Is not the Issue

The article presents information on the clash on the Ussuri River frontier between China and the Soviet Union, it is the mutual expression of ill will. The Ussuri River is a wide stream which annually shifts its course when summer floods expand its flow. Points projecting from one bank rate cut off, and become islands; islands attach themselves as points, to one bank or the other. If, with perhaps some lack of foresight, the frontier between two countries is placed in the middle of such a river, there will from year to year arise questions of what is to be done about these changes in its bed. With good will there should be no real problem: a permanent boundary commission representing both sides could arrange give and take, compensation and exchange.