Fair enough, but think about it from the perspective of a starving Chinese peasant living in a hut offered food and employment by a Chinese state mining or oil company. People in LA and NY have it a bit better than that. And, if there was natural resources exploitation going on in Alaska, there’d be a *ton* of contractors out there, as there are in Alberta, Canada. You’re thinking free people living in a prosperous economy. Chinese peasantry is something quite different. And - fact - there’s estimated 50M Chinese already living illegaly within Russian northenr borders.
Nice to get a post like this which makes me think. I didn’t know about the 50 million illegals from China in the Russian Far East, either. Thanks.