但每当中国的统治被削弱的时候，比如在1930年代和1940年代，短命的东土耳其斯坦共和国就会在俄国的支持下建立，并随之在中俄订立新协约之后灰飞烟灭。
Each time Chinese rule weakened, as in the 1930’s and 1940’s, short-lived East Turkestan Republics were established, with Russian support, only to flounder when Russia and China struck new deals.