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Originally Posted by blankall
China already pretty much controls that area economically. There's also rumored to be millions of Chinese workers already in the East of Russia.
The vultures are definitely circling. The biggest worry is ensuring that thousands of nuclear devices get accounted for in all the chaos.
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There was a story on BBC years ago talking about Chinese settlements in Eastern Russia. Some of the smaller villages that were dying or completely deserted, were being populated with migrants from China. Many of them weren't officially immigrants, but just people who crossed the border and decided to move in. Putin said they were welcome to stay, but there were issues because the communities were economically tied to China despite being on Russian land. One of the more obscure reasons for invading Ukraine thrown out by some people was that Putin wanted to relocate Ukrainians to Eastern Russia to restart some of the farms and industry there to prevent further Chinese settlement, and then replace the Ukrainian population in Ukraine with Russians. It wouldn't be the first time Russia applied strategies like that to engineer demographics in Eastern Russia, but it doesn't seem like something that reconciles with modern sensibilities.