Quote (Hamsterbaby @ 9 May 2022 01:05)
No the Chinese will not do that at the moment.
The only core issue when it comes to sovereignty is Taiwan.
Perhaps you have watch too much of the media from your side of the Globe. The Chinese have not been interfering or invading lands or bombing anyone for the past 40 years.
Border conflicts and skirmish with India happens all the time ending up with no bullets fired and they went Kung Fu fighting with the Indians.
I think you misunderstood me, I know that the Chinese will not just send their tanks to Siberia to try and annex it. I was just shitposting about the fact that the conditions (large Chinese minority etc.) to use Putin's playbook against him would be there in Siberia.
Outright invading Siberia would only be an option if Russia once again collapsed like it did during the 90s. And even then, China would probably flood the region with Chinese people rather than Chinese tanks.
Generally speaking, China prefers economic conquest over military conquest - and Putin burning all bridges between Russia and the West means that he is turning his country into China's bitch anyway. Geopolitically, China is the big and unambiguous winner of the war in Ukraine.
The fact that China has not been invading or bombing anyone for 40 years is not as meaningful as you think it is - China has been economically conquering the world for the past 40 years after all, why would they change a modus operandi which is working like a charm? Also keep in mind that China was involved in the Vietnam war and is constantly saber-rattling with regard to Taiwan. And also that it is creating artificial islands for military bases in the South China sea and so on.