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Some of it is ill-defined, and parts of it are demarcated by treaties that Beijing has long considered invalid because they were imposed by force upon a tottering Qing Dynasty government.
CNN: A complex security minuet has started in North Asia
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Wu Yuanfeng, a government archivist, says 2m out of 10m Qing documents in the country's collection are written in Manchu.
ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain
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Until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, this sprawling complex was the seat of Chinese government.
BBC: Beijing's once Forbidden City
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The Communist government, borrowing its impulse from the reviled Manchus of the Qing dynasty, wants once and for all to hammer down the borders of its supersized empire.
ECONOMIST: Banyan
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Chang Qing, of China Agricultural University, says he believes that central-government efforts are unlikely to have much impact, and that China will find it difficult to avoid a hard landing in a couple of years' time.
ECONOMIST: The economy just grows and grows