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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
That is total fringe stuff. Asserting what you did as fact is just bs disinformation. I'm sure on all sides countries will be thinking about what happens with Russian resources and who steps in for redevelopment in the case of a Russian collapse, but the idea that China views everything east of the Urals as Chinese is not reality. I've never heard that advocated for in China, not even in a Monroe equivalent kind of way, and it's certainly not any government position.
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China has been quite clear that they see the surrounding Asian territory as within their sphere of influence. They are in a massive expansionist phase, and their game plan is pretty simple, involving economic development.
If you go back to the 1800s and 1900s Russia and China were actively fighting over Siberia. China was pushed out of Siberia by a combined effort of Russia, the UK, France, the US, and Japan, through a series of treaties that China now refers to as the "Unequal Treaties". Even Mongolia was a part of China until they achieved independence solely via Soviet assistance.
With Russia unlikely to have the population to hold onto Siberia long term, many people are speculating that China will move in....first economically, then with its people, then politically.