Russia’s gonna need our help on Siberian development. Do they trust the Chicoms more? About as much as the Japanese trusted the Germans.
Let’s see. We get the resources. China supplies the(seasonal) labor. We build. Use American + Russian prison labor. I’ve said it before here. Imagine 3 million jail cells emptied. $100 billion/yr saved. Give them land at the end of their sentences. Just keep them there. Gulag with a capitalist twist.
The Czars used prison labor and exile sentences to develop and populate Siberia.