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East Turkestan - How Did it End Up Being Part of China?

Today only the northwestern part of the Chinese province of Xinjiang is considered to be East Turkestan. However, the geography and climate are such that the region has always been much more closely associated with Central Asia than with China. Its population is close to Central Asia. The distance to the centres of China has made governing these areas extremely difficult. In any case, for a long time, Beijing was able to rule that province only through the territory of the USSR. In the 1940s, Xinjiang was only nominally subordinate to the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek. However, it had its own currency, and remarkably, its stability was ensured by the State Bank of the USSR. Photographs of most of the Chinese figures of this period are in Red Army uniforms. Sheng Shiqai took over Turkestan in 1933. The previous governor had fled to the USSR. It was with the help of the USSR that Sheng Shiqai consolidated his power in the province, concluding a number of agreements beneficial to the USSR in return. And it was (it is believed) that he concluded an alliance treaty with Chiang Kai-shek. The Nanjing government of the Kuomintang deposed him in Turkestan in 1944 - and made him minister. Later, he would move to Taiwan with his capitals too.... money flees to where it is not given away. The first president of that republic in 1944 - Alikhan Tura on July 28, 1946 - was kidnapped by the Soviet secret service and secretly taken to the USSR (Tashkent), where he was under house arrest until the end of his life (another 30 years).