The changing dynamics in international politics led to such an outcome.

The Chinese Communist regime has drastically reduced the size of Inner Mongolia and greatly boosted Chinese immigration there in an effort to reduce the Russian threat on the Mongolian border. […] With the heavy concentration of Soviet troops along the borders of Inner Mongolia, Peiping fears that the Mongolians might rise to pave the way for a Russian invasion, the report said. By cutting up Inner Mongolia and reducing the Mongolian population, the Chinese Communists hope to make their tight control of the Mongolians easier in face of the Russian threat, the report said.

Running up through the crowds she looked at her watch and found she had still a half-hour to spare, saw her face as she whipped into Woolies[…]

We have already seen that it is not blur, or blurredness, itself, since, the special case of photographical images and suchlike apart, this attaches not to objects themselves but only to representations of objects.