[Pearls Before Swine]

Russia could no longer afford to ignore the threat from NATO. Drugs and terrorism were an irrelevance, he said.

As is the slow Chinese repopulation of Siberia...

[Thunder90]

As of right now, I don't think it is a threat. Anyway, most Chinese in Sibera have a beef with the PRC government, and wouldn't help them at all (they don't like the Russians either, and are subjected to re-education camps if sent back to China)