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Ukraine said it shot down a $36 million Su-34 bomber jet inside Russia
(www.businessinsider.com)
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You sure 2100?
If I was China I'd make a play for it by the end of the year, fuck Taiwan when you could snag all that free real-estate and precious metals Russia should have been mining instead of losing their ass in a war.
Why would China need to invade Russia when they can just buy the resources? Russia would certainly like something to cover the huge trade imbalance.
not only chinese can buy resources from russians, they can do so on wildly favourable terms. they can have all that oil and iron ore and whatever without the trouble of actually occupying siberia
it is good living space... but i digress...
China has no emotional investment in the territory so it would not undermine itself trying to capture it like Russia is doing now.
However, at this rate Russia will be very weak in the future and at point China will cross over and colonize the area which is very sparsely populated by about half of the people who really don't give a fuck about being "Russian"
It will be on of them... do you cry when you step on the thing and our grandkids won't blink.
6% of chinese people live in 57% of China, living space isn't an issue at that scale.
When none of your predictions come true this time, will you do some self-reflection? Did you do any self-reflection about how you'd been convinced that hostile action against Iraq was justified? Afghanistan? Libya? The ongoing occupation of Syria? How previous and upcoming action against Iran?
Do you mean 94% of Chinese people are concentrated into 43% of the space?
I mean, that just says that the distribution of people across the land is uneven. It all depends on why. Is that land inhabitable? Is it mountains or desert?
It does contain mountains and deserts, (and taiga and steppe and deciduous forest and grassland, it's really, really big) but the main reason it's less inhabited is that it's much less developed. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000459
This situation is comparable to the midwest and rockys in the US.
Right, China has an opportunity now while Russia is desperate, and that window will be open at least a generation for Russia to rebuild and repopulate, so this could be much earlier than OP predicted