Word: sinkiang
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...week, however, the old bugbear of Russian expansion was looming in the North. There were reports of mobilization in mountainous, wild Afghanistan caused by the proximity of reinforced Soviet garrisons. Afghanistan is the northern gateway to India. From Shanghai came a story of Russian troops in China's Sinkiang Province and a fantastic suggestion that they might threaten India via the trackless 16,000-ft. high plateau of Tibet. Few Indian leaders, and certainly not M. K. Gandhi, would care to exchange their British masters for Joseph Stalin...
...interior Szechwan, a new motor road was completed across mountain ranges and torrid jungles to British Burma, which fronts on the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Other routes have been kept open from Yunnan to French Indo-China, the old Imperial Highway rebuilt across the deserts of Sinkiang to the Soviet border...
First of these was the ancient Silk Road, running 2,000 miles from Sian through Sinkiang (once part of China proper but now almost completely under Soviet dominance) to the Russian centres of Alma Ata and Sergiopol, on Russia's new Turk-Sib railroad. Over this Silk Road, then called the Imperial Highway, some 2,000 years ago camel caravans, loaded with silk, jade and lacquer, plodded their way to Samarkand, where the goods were shipped to Byzantium, Tyre, Rome. Seven centuries ago Marco Polo pushed his way down the Silk Road from the West to reach the court...
...long ago a delegation from bleak and once-unfriendly Tibet* tramped to the Chinese military headquarters in Szechwan Province, there presented the Generalissimo with 10,000 sheepskins contributed by Tibetan monks, officials and peasants as "an expression of unity against the Japanese invasion." Through the Soviet-dominated territories of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia, where before the war the Chinese Government had nothing but enemies, now come two of China's main supply lines...
...Chiang is driven from the upper Yangtze valley, he may eventually have to retire to the Soviet-controlled areas of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia. Should that occur China's cause will necessarily become Russia's battle. For Russia cannot tolerate a Japanese threat to the long southern border of Siberia and the trans-Siberian railroad. But before that can happen Japan, which conquered one New China, will have to conquer still another New China not so strong in resources but much stronger in natural defenses...