Does anyone have a link to the original offending article in Chinese? The author's name "Cho Yao Lu" comes from the Russian articles cited here, not sure what his actual name is.
Ok, think I found it. The Russian title is Таджикистан инициировал передачу Китаю его земель и потерянные горы Памира были возвращены истинному хозяину, which seems to be this article: 塔吉克斯坦主动归还中国领土，丢失的帕米尔高原最终回归
Twitter won't let me link to it because it's such a junk website, but if you search the title you'll find it. If this is the article in question, it's not making new irredentist claims to Tajik territory. It's just an article celebrating the 2011 border agreement.
Something strange has gone on here. This article wasn't written by a historian, I don't see it up on any major Chinese websites, and I don't see how it justifies the Jamestown headline: "Beijing Implies Tajikistan’s Pamir Region Should Be Returned to China."
The article that kicked this whole thing off was this July 20 piece on @RadioiOzodi, the Tajik station of Radio Liberty, by an author named Farzon Muhammadi. rus.ozodi.org/a/30736955.html
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