Don’t forget Bhutan!
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I predicted years ago that the first numclear war would be between Russia and China.
Starts with China sending 10 million people to simply squatterize a big chunk of Siberia (Russia’s treasure house for the coming centuries) and the Russians will simply “cut the head off the snake” and obliterate Chinese political centers and military bases with nuclear weapons (probably EMP bursts first to knock the chi-coms for a loop).
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Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if President Trump has informed Putin that, in the event of Russia using nuclear weapons to devastate China, the US response would be a very stern letter.
I suspect COVID 19 was the intentional step 1 of this aggression. Trump had them boxed in economically and they chose to fight.
We are headed toward a bipolar world: the democracies and communist China. Russia and all the other neighbors of China are going to have to either be our allies or submit to China. This means Russia will have to “westernize,” as Japan did after WWII, and as India is in the process of doing right now. Westernizing doesn’t mean losing your national identity, at least not according to President Trump. We can be a world of nations, each secure within its border, who are engaged with each other in free and fair trade.
BTW did you hear Cuba is again facing a food shortage? Why is it that communist countries can’t even feed themselves?
When Russia and China start accusing each other of being “racist”, then everybody needs to start heading for the bunkers.
The CCP of China is trying to behave all across Asia as if it is the new Chinese imperium, and claiming anything any prior Chinese emperor remotely made claim to.
The current Chinese government has a map with a line - called the nine dash line - used by the present Chinese dictators to lay claim to islands and atolls all over the oceans around China.
The origin of the nine dash line comes from maps of the Chinese emperors. The lines on the map come from the travels of Chinese fishermen and traders. On return to China they would tell of where they had traveled and what they had seen. And on some occasions the emperor would put a pin on the map of the oceans around China, claiming the area the Chinese travelers visited as Chinese territory. In 99% of the cases, no Chinese military, administrator or official ever arrived at the point described and ever established any Chinese control of the land. One such atoll is located just 90 miles from the coast of Malaysia and more than 1,000 miles from any land of China. China just a few years ago sent an aircraft carrier to the ares of that atoll to officially remind Malaysia of its claim.
Another possible reason why the present Chinese emperors do not want to honor the treaty that placed Vladivostok in Russian hands is that it was made by the Qing dynasty, a Manchu (Manchurian) dynasty that had its ethnic pedigree in Manchuria, not from the Han Chinese. In fact, the Qing dynasty regulated the banishment of Han Chinese from parts of Manchuria and from what we now call Vladisvostok.
So, in addition to trying to restore the old imperium of the Chinese emperors, the Vladisvostok claim may also have something to do with Han Chinese resentment.
This is a continuation of this:
November 6, 2015. Chinese media are celebrating what has passed “almost unnoticed” in Russia: Moscow’s handing over of some 4.7 square kilometers of what had been Russian land to China, with Beijing viewing this as the first step toward the return of larger portions of the Russian Far East to Chinese control, according to Newsru agency.
The outlet cited a story in yesterday’s “China Daily” which reported the return of the land, noting that it is but a small part of the 1,500,000 square kilometers “the declining Qing Dynasty gave up” to the Russians between 1858 and 1915” in a series of “’unequal treaties’”
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/11/china-welcomes-russias-transfer-of.html
June 16 2015 Transbaikal officials are working on a deal with China that would allow Chinese firms to rent more than 300,000 acres of land in that Russian region, but a Beijing official says that the deal won’t go through unless Moscow agrees to a massive influx of Chinese workers because there are no Russians available for work there.
According to “Nezavisimaya gazeta,” the Transbaikal kray government is ready to sign a letter of intent that would allow a Chinese company to rent the land for 49 years, but “in Beijing, they consider that such a transfer of land is insufficient” and that Moscow must allow for the entrance of Chinese citizens to work it
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/06/beijing-wants-moscow-to-agree-to.html
December 14, 2018 – Vladimir Putin’s decision yesterday to move the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok has been dismissed by most commentators as either a vote of confidence in his candidate for governor in the latter where the Kremlin suffered a loss in September, or as something that won’t change the Far East at all.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/12/putins-decision-to-move-capital-of-far.html
and now 11 July 2020
Thousands of people have taken part in protests in Russia’s far east over the arrest of a regional leader.n They marched to the regional government in Khabarovsk shouting slogans against President Vladimir Putin.
Khabarovsk governor Sergei Furgal was detained on Thursday, accused of having ordered the killing of several business people 15 years ago. Mr Furgal defeated the candidate of Mr Putin’s United Russia party in elections two years ago.
His party, the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democrat Party of Russia, is usually seen as loyal to the Kremlin. But correspondents say Mr Furgal’s victory was seen as a blow to United Russia’s grip on power in the regions, and he is a popular figure in the far east.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53373132
If this continues Moscow will have no control in the Far East, i.e. China will take over.