Every
#Chinese
schoolchild and adult citizen knows how Tsarist Russia exploited Chinese weakness and seized Chinese territory in the 1858 Treaty of Aigun and the 1860 Treaty of Peking, two “Unequal Treaties” that Tsarist Russia imposed on the decrepit Qing Dynasty.
This lost…
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Is it possible Xi met with Putin to get a more accurate picture of the state of Russia in prep for this? Did he not say they were “prepping country for war”?
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Good history lesson Fred👍 China taking this region back would be problematic for the US & Japan as it gives China another well developed port. But it still doesn’t get them past the 1st Island chain. It’s better if RU keeps it as China is the bigger threat to the West.
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They could simply tell Russia, sure we will supply you with all the AK ammo and artillary rounds you need for a few years, but in exchange....
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Maybe. Or, this is more of expectation from someone from the Western culture, as that is what countries from western hemisphere do - they invade, attack, colonise...
On the other hand, PRC is one of the most military active regime in the history of China, ant yet - they did not…
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Perhaps the CCP, in an expression of brotherhood, would consider administering these areas for russia, you know, until russia gets on their feet again.
And perhaps Japan will make a similar offer for the Kuriles.
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Basically, in Bakhmut, Russia will waste the force that they will need in Vladivostok.
In other words, Ukraine is taking Vladivostok for China.
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Agree, that should be a point of natural tensions between Russia & China.
But hard 4 that 2 materialize in the wake of what Kennan accurately prophesied well before the rise of Putin.
The West needs 2 ask itself some hard questions.
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Yes, and the world changes. Maps of the Roman, Holy Roman, Mongol, Austrian, British, Nazi, and Soviet empires are all relics of an earlier age of territorial conquest. Recognizing independence of those regions is one thing; seizing them to reconstitute an empire is quite another
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#kgvt
. indeed, 200mio Chines facing 2mio Russians (Siberian), as friends in Novosibirsk said as late as 2018. ... what if, russians where looking to lose in Donbas/Crimea, to escape the chinese embrace. What if Nato had a border with China?
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Yes, and the White Russians in Vladivostok did not want the US occupation forces to leave in 1920. We
"said" that the reasons we had sent in troops had been accomplished and there was no way we were staying at the same time we were pushing for the League of Nations to stop such…
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As many predicted China will now take most of The old Russian Federation for it's resources.
For them this a overdue by 100 and more years.
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I've been saying this for years...Bejing wants her other "lost provinces" returned...and maybe a large slice of Siberia as "interest"...