Eye on Eurasia: Chinese come to Russia

UPI ^ | 2/10/2006 | PAUL GOBLE

[gogoman]

Sounds similar to Mexican influx in the US, except China's economy is much larger than Russia's.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

China is eyeing that area since its were the bulk of Russia's oil and natural resources are located.

The trojan horse is already being inserted in. Well in this case, trojan dragon.

[monkeywrench]

And then there's this,

"a weakening of Russian national identity and an opening to unwelcome influence "from the site of the Chinese superpower."

Very bad influence, indeed.

[GSlob]

They richly deserve one another - it is a marriage made in heaven. Using a quote from one Karl Marx, the "asiatic despotisms" naturally attract. Serves all of them right.

[Travis McGee]

In the long term, how can a demographically dying Russia possibly resist the Chinese immivasion?

[Fruitbat]

Funny how polarization can happen over there but according to many, somehow we're exempt here.

[dennisw]

The Russians have only 140 million people. They will not be able to stop the Chinese from invading Siberia via immigration and these Chinese will have decent sized families, which is prohibited in China. Demography is destiny.

[dennisw]

check out my post #7

[Diddle E. Squat]

Sounds similar to Mexican influx in the US, except China's economy is much larger than Russia's.

Except the biggest difference of all, (if the article is to be taken at face value) is that the Chinese there are not assimilating, while all our immigrant groups are assimilating quite well. The rate of inter-marriage is relatively very high, and that is just one measure of assimilation.

[Travis McGee]

Barring total nuclear war or a shift of the earth's axis, that will come to pass.

[walford]

As Pat Buchanan said a few years back:
http://www.drudgereport.com/mattpjb.htm

• By 2050, 23 million Germans will have disappeared along with 16 million Italians and 30 million Russians.

• Russia will lose Siberia and the far east to China and be pushed out of the Caucuses and Central Asia, where Islamic populations are exploding while Russia’s is dying.

[MARKUSPRIME]

I loath the han chinese. The are racist vermin about as disgusting as radical islamist. They will start saying its their territory soon enough. Beware Russia you have been warned.These mongols only understand strength.

[Travis McGee]

while all our immigrant groups are assimilating quite well.

What a howler!

[dennisw]

Too bad for the Russians that vodka isn't Viagra

[Diddle E. Squat]

And author Truman Capote was gay. Are we thus to assume that you are gay?

Anecdotal does not equate to representative.

[gogoman]

I loath the han chinese. The are racist vermin about as disgusting as radical islamist.

Wow. You just loathed 1 billion people in the world, who have never attacked the US nor sought out to convert you. The racist is you.

[MARKUSPRIME]

I been to china 3 times and the mainland han chinese men were very rude and racist to me. The Han mainlander males(not all but most I met) act like china is the master race,that china is the middle kingdom, and that the rest of us are all barbarians. Im a white guy in the US,and their racism is light years behind our progression.I have been to India as well and was treated nicely and with dignity. China needs to progress much more in terms of human relations.

[Petey139]

How do you expect them to pro create in such a horrid enviroment. C'mon its freaking cold in Siberia. So cold youll become an ice sicle if you stay out for too long.

[gogoman]

I been to china 3 times and the mainland han chinese men were very rude and racist to me. The Han mainlander males(not all but most I met) act like china is the master race,that china is the middle kingdom, and that the rest of us are all barbarians.

I'm sorry that they were rude and racist to you, but I would be rude to you too if you openly state that you loathe an entire people for the personal behavior and acts of a few individuals you happen to meet superficially on a trip.

China is the "Middle Kingdom" (chungkuo) because that's the name of the country, it refers to the Central Plains (chungyuen) area of China that was believed to be the origin of the Chinese civilization. It DOES NOT mean the "Center of the World." The word "Middle" in the term "Middle Kingdom" is a proper noun, not an adjective. The Chinese today consider white people "Barbarians"? Did you read this from your high school history book?


I have been to India as well and was treated nicely and with dignity.

India has the freakin' caste system for christsakes. You happen to be white and resemble their colonial rulers, the English.

I'm sorry if my post sounds harsh, but it's just amazing that you can loathe an entire people (1 billion strong!) and call them all racists from the experience of meeting a few of them on a trip. Doesn't that strike you as ironic at all? What part of China did you go by the way? You do understand that the Taiwanese are 98% Han Chinese, right? Are they also all racists? What about the Japanese who allied with the Master Race (Germans)?

[gogoman]

Russian Far East
Some geographic perspective....