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Posted on 12/30/2024 6:49:00 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Chinese nationalists are calling for Russia to return land they claim was stolen by the Kremlin in the 19th century.
A video on Chinese social media has called on Beijing to take advantage of Moscow's weakened position to seize large parts of Siberia and Russia's Far East.
The clip has gone viral in China and has racked up millions of hits among viewers on TikTok.
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The Treaty of Aigun in 1858 forced China to cede much of Manchuria to the Russian Tsar Alexander II.
The territory, comprising some 600,000 square kilometres, is part of Russia's Far East and includes Vladivostok - the base of Putin's Pacific Fleet.
In the video the Chinese narrator calls on China's "thunderous" army to "rush north" and retrieve the country's historic lands.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Putin’s chickens are coming home to roost.
Putin is a fool.
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Russia has won the war in Ukraine started by the US. The media just doesn’t want to report it because the media was on the other side.
They’re panicking.
US policy since Nixon was to keep Russia and China apart and off-balance.
Stupid, arrogant US neocons destroyed that policy and drove them together. They believed their own propaganda.
The Americans and the Russians would be wise to become strong allies. Maybe they will.
Nixon and Kissinger played off China against Russia. Will Trump and Rubio play off Russia against China?
The joke in eastern Europe during the Cold War was that an optimist studies English, a realist studies Russian, and a pessimist studies Chinese.
Both China and Russia and Iran and Turkey and Ukraine and all the rest attacking the US would be most logical. This might get the US to stop acting like the Boss of the world and start tending to its own business and stop erring its own borders and attacking its own patriotic citizens.
The NATO-Ukraine team seems to be attempting to expand the conflict blowing up a cargo ship in the Mediterranean seizing a tanker in the Baltic last week.
If they were never part of China then why did the cede them to Russia by treaty?
A big miscalculation. China may assume that Russia would never go nuclear to defend remote territory, or similar miscalculation. Chinese-Russian tension certainly plays to the United States and the West's advantage. It's best to sit back and eat popcorn.
One could also ask how much is the Kremlin paying the usuals as well
” This might get the US to stop acting like the Boss of the world and start tending to its own business and stop erring its own borders and attacking its own patriotic citizens.”
That only happens when we’re dead broke, and the progressive cities have been reduced to smoldering ashes.
So did Tom Clancy.
The book “The Bear and The Dragon” was published in 2000.
Which means Tom started writing it 25 years ago or more.
TikTok is Chinese state media. Xi is sending a message to Putin.
Being occupied with Ukraine, Russia would almost certainly defend against China with nukes. China has about 500 so say Russia attacked with just 1000, a guess. Both tactical and strategic, to take out Chinese military assets and cities to weaken their ability to continue an aggressive war.
That will be enough to create significant fallout and a moderate nuclear winter. Causing 100s of millions worldwide to die.
If you say so. It’s not relevant to the point.
Exactly.
Chinese culture believes that holding stuff is what matters. Not productivity. Not freedom. Not income. Stuff.
They look North and feel they have been dealt a crap hand. They see what Russia has and covet it. They can’t stand that someone else has what they want.
So they’ll find a way to take it.
That’s my impression of the deepest nature of the Chinese psyche.
Have we run out of modern wars? Now we have to go back to 150 year old grudges?
China would love to grab the resources in Eastern Russia. Let’s not confuse that by attaching it to some old “claims.”
Yes, I saw that.
Thanks for reporting on it.
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