[texas booster]

The 1,865-mile Power of Siberia pipeline will transport gas from the Chayandinskoye and Kovytka fields in eastern Siberia to the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, which borders Russia, going on to Jilin and Liaoning, China's top grain hub.

I suspect that China will thank Russia for the gas, by “nationalizing” the entire length of it, all the way back to Siberia.

That's the difference between treaties between neo-Commies like Merkel and true Commies like Xi.

Maybe not today but one day.

[NorseViking]

Well, it is a possibility or maybe not. Politics is the art of possible. Sometimes you have immediate calls and answering to it might create problems in future but you still have to respond to the calls in order of appearance.

[Justa]

I had a Chinese history teacher in college, Dr. Wu. As a kid in 1949 he was trying to escape the communists to Taiwan. He was next to the ferry but didn’t have money for a ticket. As the ferry started to leave a dockworker said to him, “hey kid if you want to get on just jump on. And he did.

He said the Chinese view Siberia as conquered Chinese territory. I believe it was due to the historical Mongol occupation which the Chinese base their territorial claims on.