Siberia is up for grabs as Putin becomes China's vassal

msn.com ^ | 18 March 2023 | Matthew Henderson

[anthropocene_x]

Xi Jinping has a clearly-articulated view of the strategic rise of China.

By 2049, Xi says, China will have become the dominant world power, once more enjoying the superior military, economic, political and cultural status that was usurped by Western imperialism in the 19th century.

Since Xi’s rise to power, all his actions, at home and overseas, have focused on achieving this objective. His vision does not include a relationship with Russia as a peer, and never will.

Ultimately, Xi Jinping needs only energy from Putin. Even though Beijing can bargain the price down, they will be buying such vast quantities that Russian dependency on their market is assured, and the asymmetric relationship maintained. Beijing is also seeking to sanction-proof its own economy.

Guaranteed access to Siberia’s almost limitless resources, particularly of gas, would greatly help it to do so. Putin is already diverting gas destined for the European market to pipelines stretching across taiga and steppe to China’s northern border.

The most likely outcome is that by degrees a war-drained Russia will fall prey to overwhelming PRC influence – a strategic transformation for which the free world would be wise to prepare.

[NorseViking]

Okay, stay in the twilight. Although I have no idea where do you get your ideas from.

[ansel12]

What ideas, that Britain hasn’t sent the SAS into Ukraine to fight and that the United States Marine Corps hasn’t sent any MARSOC there to fight, and hasn’t sent any regular Marine forces there to fight?

You spew so much silly stuff and just expect people to believe it.

[Wallace T.]

Don't forget that the Central Asian republics, formerly part of the Soviet Union and before that, the Tsarist Empire, were at one time under Chinese rule or at least in the Chinese orbit as tributary states during the Middle Ages. I suspect that China may expand in that direction, possibly in tandem with a move in Eastern Siberia. The Russian military seems more incompetent than their Communist and Tsarist predecessors, based on their struggles to subdue Ukraine.

[ansel12]

It looks like Putin has opened enough cans of worms to keep Russia occupied for years to come.

Letting the world see the dismal state of their corrupt military and then draining its limited and difficult-to-replace capacities on the battlefields of little Ukraine for all the world to see was a massive blunder by Russia’s current dictator.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Russia should’ve dealt with China in the 1960’s.

It’s too late now and they will rue the day they didn’t destroy the Chinese then.