China may threaten Taiwan, but a bigger prize for China's Communist Party could be the unpopulated and unprotected lands of Russia’s far eastern provinces.
that the great demographic imbalance between China and Russia’s depopulating Far East could encourage Beijing to press north.
Demographically, with only two or three people per square kilometer, the vast expanse of Asian Russia is essentially vacant, ready for annexation and easy settlement. Those Russian citizens that remain are largely voting with their feet, heading west towards the more glamorous cities of European Russia. In a few years, there simply won’t be many ethnic Russians left in Russia’s eastern territories.
With Russia’s military reputation in tatters, and the Russian Army reduced to begging for supplies from Iran and a motley band of ex-Soviet states, there is little left in the conventional Russian arsenal to deter Chinese military aggression. In desperation, Russia is reactivating the same types of T-62 main battle tanks that China seized from Russian border forces some fifty years ago. Contempt for Russia’s military will be increasingly difficult for China to contain.
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