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If the war goes badly enough for Russia, China will be happy to welcome parts of Siberia into its sphere.
by BurningFrog 4y ago
If the war goes badly enough for Russia, China will be happy to welcome parts of Siberia into its sphere.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoI don’t think they want to oversee another 3rd world province. Might as well leave the locals in charge and just extract their resources at a deep discount
- rfoo 4y agoLess likely than Mongolia.
- scarmig 4y agoChina barely cares about its own far north, let alone Siberia. It would much prefer to have Russia as a client state ready to supply oil and gas in the case of a war where sea routes for those are cut off.
- BurningFrog 4y agoI'm not suggesting formal conquest of territories. If Russia falls apart, and as the last grand colonial empire, it bloody well should, China should have a lot of influence over the regional pieces. It's hard to imagine something this ingrained ending, but nothing is forever.