China urged to be ready to take the Far East "soon" – Chinese media

December 15 2025 30 521 53

While China remains silent on the issue of support and is playing a double game with its closest ally, Russia (as stated), a soft anti-Russian campaign of expansion into "historical Chinese lands" is unfolding in the world's largest country. An article calling for "being prepared to take over the unclaimed Far East" was published on the extremely popular internet platform NetEase (analogous to Russian Yandex or Mail.ru).

The author of the study, citing historical documents such as the Aigun Treaty (1858) and the Treaty of Peking, urges the Chinese to be prepared for the Far East to soon return "home" when "Russia weakens" in its confrontation with the West. At that point, 7 million square kilometers should not be lost. This also includes Sakhalin and Vladivostok.

As a result of such treaties, China lost more than a million square kilometers of territory, which weakened its defense in the northeast.

– writes the Chinese author.

According to a Chinese researcher, the Russian one is now economy It's at a crossroads, weakened by military action and the financial cycle. But "China must be prepared for anything," he urges.

The article then goes on to list the conditions. First, the Far East is extremely rich in resources, bringing Russia considerable profits. Second, according to the author, the region "stands without troop protection, as all have been sent to the Northern Military District."

So China supposedly has a good opportunity to acquire not only "its" lands but also resources, as Beijing faces a serious energy shortage: pipelines from the Far East annually supply 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas, enough to meet only 10% of the country's gas needs. More is needed, the "expert" concludes.

Continuing, the researcher writes that China has been actively involved in the Far East for many years. Chinese companies are building roads, ports, and are involved in mining and agriculture, attracting capital and TechnologyThe yuan is increasingly used there, even by small businesses using WeChat. Therefore, Beijing must, at the appropriate time, protect these territories from similar US claims to prevent a power vacuum.

The Chinese authorities must use soft power, a smart approach to gain territory, and be more accommodating, continue to invest money and human resources, enter into long-term contracts and support pro-Chinese forces in the region.

– concludes the Chinese author.

In this regard, Russian authorities should urgently pay attention to such – still private – posts by “researchers” on China’s most popular platform. Such sentiments are not isolated in China, and what one author describes is already happening in reality. How soon will the “private opinions” of experts and historians dominate China’s state doctrine? Just as they once did in Ukraine.

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R-R-AV

+7

15 December 2025 06: 24

Friends, what can I say, Indians are the same, only those who accidentally took a high position don't understand this.
1. reefroof
  
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  15 December 2025 07: 25
  
  Yes, and the Indians will be brought in soon.
  1. Prisoner
    
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    15 December 2025 13: 40
    
    Indians are better than Tajiks and Azerbaijanis!
2. Prisoner
  
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  15 December 2025 13: 38
  
  Are you one of those "accidentally" not in this position? Are you a cook or a taxi driver? Or one of those Yankee hangers-on like the author of this article, who most likely lives in the US? This whole Anglo-Saxon provocation is just dog shit in the snow. Clearly!
  1. Mikhail L.
    
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    15 December 2025 15: 38
    
    Are you swearing because the author of the article and the commentator stepped on a sore spot?
    If the "workshop of the world" wishes to open a second front, its raw materials appendage, the Russian Federation, will be unable to do anything...
  2. goncharov.62
    
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    15 December 2025 17: 33
    
    Look at the old maps of Greater China. But not those published in the USSR... Russia took a lot from them after one war. And it was in their capital at the time (I don't remember the name). But China thinks in terms of millennia, and seeing our "skillful" management, it has its own ideas. I wouldn't take this so lightly.
    1. boriz
      
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      16 December 2025 20: 52
      
      I can show you maps of China from the 17th and 18th centuries, where China's northern border follows the Great Wall of China. At the end of the 17th century, China was a kingdom, ruled by the Emperor of Tartary.
      1. goncharov.62
        
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        16 December 2025 21: 00
        
        Originals - I hope?
sannyhome

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15 December 2025 06: 25

These provocations look ridiculous - China is full of undeveloped, much warmer and more comfortable undeveloped territories.
1. Sergei Cergei
  
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  15 December 2025 13: 08
  
  You're right, this could very well be an MI6-level provocation. The divide-and-conquer principle is being implemented. There are plenty of Anglo-Saxon agents in China.
2. Prisoner
  
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  15 December 2025 13: 41
  
  Fools don't know this, and provocateurs don't pay attention to it.
  1. Sergei Cergei
    
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    15 December 2025 17: 48
    
    Another thing is that this is how a population is raised with a certain format of thinking, and that is serious.
  2. Flight
    
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    16 December 2025 14: 07
    
    Smart people usually learn from their mistakes. If not, they're hardly smart. The Chinese openly share their secrets, and only the dim-witted don't understand them. Like gritza—thoughts spoken aloud—they materialize.
3. Brother
  
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  16 December 2025 07: 40
  
  No... provocation. And even less funny. It's a sad reality. And this didn't apply to the USSR, although there were small areas of "uncoordinated border territories."
  Despite all the real support from today's Russia, they keep a fig in their pocket.
  It happened in 2017. I was living and working in China. The family I was renting a room from had a small child, a school-age child.
  Official geography textbooks and maps (and there are no others in China! Only their own) of the national structure of schoolchildren clearly indicate the territory of areas in Eastern Siberia, Kazakhstan, a huge part of the Far East, and, most bizarrely, Sakhalin Island as territory of the PRC – "temporarily inaccessible."
  And the Chinese raise their children exactly like this!
  "The time will come!"
  1. sannyhome
    
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    16 December 2025 19: 57
    
    Quote: Breard
    Official geography textbooks and maps
    
    Don't talk about official textbooks. The official ones are fine, it's only the private textbooks that are inaccurate.
    The official text states that this was the case before the land survey agreement of 1689. That's all.
  2. E NOT
    
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    19 December 2025 11: 20
    
    Here's another map of China for Chinese schoolchildren. And don't listen to those who like to spread horror without evidence.
Livonetc

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15 December 2025 07: 12

The demographic situation is inexorably against us.
And how to change this in the current realities.
Current measures to stimulate the birth rate are clearly insufficient.
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2. Vadim_2
  
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  15 December 2025 08: 03
  
  The Chinese are facing the same problems. The number of elderly people is growing rapidly.
3. Botrops
  
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  15 December 2025 08: 40
  
  But the Yars and Sarmatians are playing for us, and they will compensate for the demographic loss.
4. Flight
  
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  16 December 2025 14: 10
  
  It is not demographics that are playing against us, but the people in the Kremlin dome, with their laws and projects.
  https://www.trud.ru/article/12-12-2025/1766421_tak_vy_za_rossiju_ili_za_oligarxov.html
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Ivan1978

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15 December 2025 07: 31

The quiet annexation of Chinese partners has been going on for a long time, and the government itself is encouraging it: land is leased for 50 years, Damansky is a gift, and ordinary businessmen are moving to Mother Russia as if it were their home, which is how their economic miracle happened, free timber and other cheap resources from our side, so they are getting brazen.
1. Botrops
  
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  15 December 2025 08: 46
  
  Let's start with the fact that, throughout Russia's existence, China has never once invaded its borders on a global scale, something the West has done regularly for centuries. As for their miracle, I wouldn't jump to conclusions. Oil, for example, has only recently begun to be supplied to them on a fairly large scale, after the country's turn to the east. The fact that their businessmen are visiting us is wonderful. Joint projects have never bothered anyone. So far, there's no particular cause for concern. And Russia isn't weakening in its confrontation with the West; on the contrary, it's testing new weapons, and the Russian army is gaining combat experience. And let's not forget the Yars and Sarmatians...those who stand guard over our lands.
2. Pro100
  
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  15 December 2025 20: 45
  
  This is all dubious. For example, Jews are also heavily present in all spheres of activity, even in management, but no one fears or worries that Israel will lay claim to anything. And there are many other examples. It's just that some funds and resources are being exported to these countries, that's all.
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Alexey Vladimirov

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15 December 2025 08: 38

Measures are needed to boost the demographic situation in the Russian Federation. The only thing that will help is free state-provided apartments for young people. We urgently need to revive construction organizations, as they did in the USSR: SMU-8 and RSU-4. Then young people will have the opportunity to have children with their own homes, without having to spend 90% of their salaries on astronomical mortgages.
horseradish

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15 December 2025 08: 53

And who would have doubted it? When they meet ours, they smile sweetly and swear friendship, and keep a knife in their bosom.
Sergey Latyshev

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15 December 2025 09: 01

A soft anti-Russian campaign is unfolding in the world's largest country

- In Russia, perhaps? The largest country in the world.

Chinese author

- Who is this? A Medvedev analogue? Or some kind of pauper? No full name, nothing... did someone make this up?

on the extremely popular internet platform NetEase

- We don't know any. And the website is just...

lost more than a million square kilometers of territory, which weakened its defenses in the northeast

So the second follows from the first,

stands without troop protection, as all were sent to the North-Eastern Military District

- even before the SVO, I came across a calculation that at least 1/4 of the force was in China's favor...

The Russian authorities should

- It's common knowledge; various authors have been discussing the issue for 30 years, but for now... islands for China, continental shelf for Europe, straightening for Japan, etc.
Maybe it's better without them? Will they give me something else?

Conclusion: the anonymous person's story is bullshit...
alexander m_2

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15 December 2025 09: 07

The article was written by English provocateurs. Their dream is to set Russia and China against each other.
1. vBR
  
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  15 December 2025 10: 59
  
  But it must be said that MI6 isn't operating in a vacuum—there are Maoists like them. While Xi's (historically) pro-Soviet group remains strong, nothing of the sort will happen right now. But who knows? His opponents are alive and well, and the Anglophiles and Americans are actively working with them.
Alexey Davydov

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15 December 2025 10: 07

The Americans took this into account. To prevent China from seizing territories in the Far East and Siberia during our defeat and destruction by Europe and Japan, they left nuclear weapons with their colonial administration in Russia. They themselves are not very comfortable risking this. Thus, one of the mysteries of Russian history after Yeltsin is resolved.
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kovaleff

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15 December 2025 12: 31

Well, the locals will have cars at a reasonable price, and the Chinese know what to do with bearded people
Glagol1

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15 December 2025 12: 45

Such authors are everywhere, even here. They fall into two categories: idiots who need to somehow shine, and those who follow the instructions of their Western masters. This scribbling is worthless, just as a squashed cockroach in a building entryway isn't worth paying attention to. Throw it in the trash and forget about it.
Ron

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15 December 2025 13: 47

We'll have to throw Taiwan a few Oreshnikovs. So to speak, to cool down those hot-blooded Chinese guys.
Jacques sekavar

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15 December 2025 14: 10

Historically, the Primorsky, Amur, Khabarovsk, and Tuvan provinces were part of China, as were Mongolia and some territories of Central Asian states. However, fighting them makes no sense; it makes more sense to exploit and assimilate them. China, however, is buying natural resources and making them dependent on exploitation. Since the war, the Chinese renminbi has become the main foreign currency of the Russian Federation, and China could collapse the Russian economy at any moment, with all the consequences that entails.
horseradish

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15 December 2025 15: 00

It's time to turn the shafts towards America; we've been heading in the wrong direction. America won't mind.
Spatel

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15 December 2025 16: 00

China is silent on the issue of support and is playing a double game with its closest ally Russia.

Not long ago, Germany and all of Eastern Europe were completely dependent on Russia for gas and oil. Remember how they trumpeted Nord Stream 2, and on all sorts of talk shows they mocked Ukraine for threatening to destroy it?
"Yes, we'll have Kyiv in three days... Yes, all of Europe will freeze in winter without our gas... Yes, we'll show you all..."
So what happened? Did they show it?
What happened was that the United States initiated this unnecessary war for Putin's ambitions, putting all good relations with Europe on the line and ultimately completely and shamefully screwing up, still unable to figure out how to recover even four years later. And now the United States can publicly play peacekeeper—the job is done! Russia is in deep trouble, Germany is tearing its shirt off its chest, like, "...now we'll take this Russia...!!" On the island, they're rubbing their hands in anticipation of profiting from the corpse of the largest state in the world.
What did Putin achieve? Was it worth it?
As for China, this industrial China was created by the United States, not just to counter Russia, but to counter the Soviet Union. They educated the Chinese at their universities, equipped them with cutting-edge technologies in mechanical engineering and electronics, while we were busily stealing and plundering, selling off our natural resources, and feverishly stashing the money in our pockets and offshore accounts.
But the US, too, has miscalculated slightly. Two billion Chinese have risen from the Stone Age and are demanding Taiwan back. And in this case, China needs Russia as a partner, like a bouncer at a restaurant with a nuclear baton, even if it doesn't come to blows. But so be it! Even the US can't ignore this situation! The main point is that China shares a 4209-kilometer border with Russia, not the US. And no one can predict whether Comrade Xi, like his colleague Pu four years ago, might desire to expand his territory.
And if...???
1. Botrops
  
  -2
  
  16 December 2025 10: 04
  
  Let's start with what American Mark Millie said about "Kyiv in three days"
  Four-star general, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. No Russian officials or members of the Ministry of Defense spoke out. Then the whole issue was dropped. As for frozen Europe, the situation has gotten even worse. M. Šefčovič, Vice President of the European Union,
  Back at the beginning of 24 I said that the European Union, since the beginning of the CIS, has lost its energy
  The crisis has resulted in losses of over €1 trillion. Rising energy prices (over 30% for gas alone) have contributed to higher production costs, rising utility bills, and businesses shifting to other countries where energy (and therefore production costs) are lower.
  Just yesterday, Volkswagen closed its doors in Dresden due to unprofitable production. China and India, meanwhile, will get what Europe once had: cheap (by global prices) and stable energy supplies, which means all the prerequisites for manufacturing development and high profitability.
  Were "good relations with Europe" at stake? Good relations. NATO, at the expense of the Soviet border states, continued to expand, contrary to the agreements, and ardent Russophobes were brought in to lead the former Soviet republics of Europe, despite what the USSR and Russia had done for them, in terms of territorial gifts, the creation of industries, and essentially keeping them on the books for many decades (of the Soviet republics, only Kazakhstan and Belarus were profitable, and at certain periods, Azerbaijan (due to its oil)). It actively supported the West and Chechen fighters during the Russian-Chechen wars, so talking about any kind of "good" relations with Europe is simply laughable, especially considering that Europe, almost in its entirety, periodically invaded Russia and the USSR, committing genocide against 29 million Soviet citizens, as it did during World War II. China, by the way, has never done anything similar.
  "in the end, he completely and shamefully screwed himself up, not understanding even four years later how to get out of it now."
  Well, for now, NATO is screwing around, fighting on the side of the 404, providing it with control and intelligence systems, communications, ammunition, and weapons, supplying it with money, advisers, and "volunteers," as the example of the deceased British military serviceman reveals. What other country in the world could have resisted something like that?
  The Russian economy is withstanding sanctions that would leave even the hegemon breathing heavily without a noticeable decline in living standards. Moreover, Russia is the world's fourth-largest economy by PPP, based on the results of 24. At the front, the liberation of territories is progressing, albeit slowly, and there is no doubt that both Donbas and Luhansk will be completely liberated. Does the Supreme Commander not know what to do? He has repeatedly stated that the Central Military District will continue until its goals are achieved.
  That is, at a minimum, the DPR and LPR will be liberated, discriminatory measures against the Russian language and Russian-speaking population will be lifted, Nazi laws (such as the Law on Indigenous Peoples) will be repealed, and Ukraine will receive neutral and non-nuclear status. So, no one has abandoned their goals.
  
  What will China gain from rapprochement with Russia? Not just a "bully with a nuclear bludgeon." But a reliable energy supplier at prices that will allow China to remain the world's leading economy. In the event of a military conflict, it will gain an ally from whom it can obtain target control and reconnaissance data (remember, Russia has over 100 military satellites in orbit, plus early warning systems and long-range target acquisition systems), weapons tested in the military, ammunition, political support, and the very same energy resources on which China is critically dependent, and which are doubly important in wartime.
  1. Spatel
    
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    16 December 2025 19: 22
    
    Well, I'm glad that there are fewer and fewer of you Putinoids. I sincerely hope you too will see the light soon, Mr. "Putriot"...
    1. Botrops
      
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      17 December 2025 00: 08
      
      I'm hardly a "Putinoid"))) With all due respect to the Supreme Commander, I think he's being too soft on your Europe. A long time ago, in response to the Sheldrake missile attacks on Russian cities, a crash should have landed in Portsmouth or blown up an LNG tanker heading to Europe. But no, we're being cautious for now. Why bother? We have the means to unpleasantly surprise Europe.
Omer Skakavac

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15 December 2025 16: 04

Even Shanghainese people describe Harbin as a cold, remote place where there's nothing to do. They couldn't go any further.
Nick. WITH

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15 December 2025 16: 24

And who wants Chukotka?
IbukiSuika

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15 December 2025 16: 45

Honestly, I thought it was some official media outlet or major portal—but it turned out to be NetEase! That's hardly surprising. After all, under every news item on NetEase, you can find the most outlandish characters with the most absurd comments. But their main idea is always the same: they oppose everything that supports China, attack those who are friends with China, and support those who are anti-China. These people aren't reformers—they're outright traitors to the motherland! Simply put, they'd so passionately like to shed their skin and don white, to become Americans or Britons. So, any shocking statements on such a portal wouldn't surprise me—I've actually seen comments praising the Japanese military for committing a national tragedy in Nanjing.
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goncharov.62

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15 December 2025 17: 29

We'll mumble, kiss the gums of those who offer us a small share, offer our resources to yesterday's (?) enemy, look everywhere (except at home) for so-called "brotherly peoples" - and we'll get such happiness! And then there's no need to modestly say - "We've been fooled again!" (c)... IMHO.
vlad127490

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15 December 2025 17: 35

There's the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Vladivostok. They've been closely involved with the Far East and the Far East states, including China since 1954. To write about the Far East and its relations with China, you need to be a Sinologist. The Chinese never lived permanently in the Far East; they came for gold, furs, ginseng, sea cucumber, and so on, and then retreated to their southern territories. At one time, there was the vast Bohai Kingdom, to which China has no connection. An indigenous population has lived and continues to live in the Far East, and they are not Chinese. Therefore, the Far East is not historically Chinese territory. The fact that China colors half of Siberia and the Far East yellow on its maps is merely a matter of personal whim. From the 1960s, China, along with the United States, fought in the Cold War against the USSR—considerably Russia—until 1991. The process of normalizing relations with the Soviet Union began with the signing of the Sino-Soviet Joint Communique on May 8, 1989. For Russia, China is neither an ally nor a partner, but merely a trader and neighbor, nothing more. It is a neighbor to whom one must not turn one's back. China benefits from the war in Ukraine, and China benefits from the power Yeltsin brought to power.
If not for the construction of a bridge between North Korea and Russia across the Tumannaya River, Russian liberals would have ceded the mouth of the Tumannaya River to China. Even China didn't confront Kim Jong-un. Thanks to Kim Jong-un for preserving Russian land.
Vladivostok was founded in 1860. There were no Chinese settlements on the site of the future Vladivostok.
The primary source for understanding what these lands looked like when the Russians arrived is the notes of ship's surgeon John Tronson from the British steamship Barracuda. The British visited these shores in 1854-56, during the height of the Crimean War, when they were reconnoitering and patrolling the coast of Kamchatka. Among other things, they gave these lands several colorful toponyms. For example, Zolotoy Rog Bay was called "Port May," Peter the Great Bay was called Victoria Bay, Amur Bay was called Geren Bay, Ussuri Bay was called Napoleon Bay, numerous islands south of Vladivostok were called the Empress Eugenie Archipelago, and a highland on the Peschany Peninsula was called "Table Mountain" (just like in Cape Town).
Here's what Tronson writes:

We were advancing towards a more thickly peopled region, and in many creeks we could discern some Tartar houses <…> Some of the islands are partly inhabited by Mantchu Tartars…

He calls the Far East "Tartary", and the local population "Tatars", a collective term used to designate all the aborigines who spoke the Tungus-Manchu languages.
Andrey Andreev_2

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15 December 2025 17: 35

I wrote about this earlier..

...It's a good thing the clown and company don't want to accept the US's terms, because freezing or ending the Cold War is unfavorable for Russia. Even the most casual observer understands this! Trump has the following goals: to "drive Europe into the ground floor", forcing it to pay 10-15% of GDP for security, to "sit" on Russian energy resources (by purchasing the Ukrainian Druzhba and Russian Nord Stream 1 and 2), to "saddle" the NSR through investments and technology (they will print as much paper as necessary), Russia's "frozen" gold and foreign exchange reserves will be managed by a fund appointed by him, the data center will belong to Musk and will be provided with electricity from the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which will also be controlled by the Americans... but the saddest thing is that we are again "forgetting" on developing our own economy and industry, since the Americans will bring their investments and technologies, and also receive large stakes in these enterprises (including raw materials) and... Russia will again turn into a gas station (raw materials colony of the West)... Therefore, we need to fight until Ukraine completely capitulates, developing ties with BRICS, the SCO... (but also very carefully, since they are not fools either and everyone is ready to take a bite of our pie).
Victor P

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15 December 2025 19: 48

These are provocations. They can't take Taiwan. And the Far East is a significant territory, and it's coming soon. They're all so quick.
1. vlad127490
  
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  15 December 2025 22: 09
  
  The Chinese care about their country.
  In 2005, China passed the Anti-Secession Law. According to the document, in the event of a threat to the peaceful reunification of the mainland and Taiwan, the PRC government is obliged to resort to force and other necessary methods to preserve its territorial integrity.
  On June 15, 2022, China adopted the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) legal framework for non-military military activities. That will allow the PRC army to participate in operations not related to the war.
  On October 22, 2022, the delegates of the XNUMXth Congress of the Communist Party of China approved the introduction of a provision on counteracting Taiwan independence to the Charter of the political force.
  Legally, Taiwan is Chinese territory. In 20-50 years, Taiwan will quietly and peacefully return to China, like Hong Kong.
  You'd better answer for yourself why the Russian Federation doesn't have similar laws for Ukraine.
AdeptV

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15 December 2025 20: 26

I've always said that China is by no means Russia's friend, but for some reason I've been downvoted here. Apparently by those who are particularly sensitive to the "Kremlin line."
The Far East is practically deserted. A tiny population. The result of the collaborationist activities of pseudo-patriots. What can ordinary people, who understand everything, do in this situation? Nothing. It's the job of state security to straighten out the fault lines even within the "towers" themselves, unless, of course, they want to "go down with a bang" along with these towers...
Alexander Petrovsky

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15 December 2025 20: 42

For the uneducated, there's no economic sense in China taking by force what our beloved government will sell at a discount. Their median salary for a specialist in the country is $1400, compared to $1000 for young people—our Ivan could get $500. Why the hell would they take us over? They also need to create comfortable conditions for their workers. Ivan is working a shift in the forest-tundra, in a trailer, and doesn't talk a word. And they can still cheat him out of his salary, and the employer in Russia won't have anything to lose. And the Chinese worker is happy in their south (relative to us)—the sea, warmth, cheap seafood—nothing like that in Siberia... It's only when Vova starts making a deal with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics about American concessions in the Far East and central Russia that they might take it away. American multinationals won't sell resources to China cheap.
AC130 Gunship

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15 December 2025 21: 14

Only a blind person can't see this. More than 240 Tu-16s with new engines and new avionics, each armed with four (old) or six (modified) long-range cruise missiles. Each one carries 500 kg of TNT. And UAVs, which we buy from them as "build-your-own" kits.
Ilya 22

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15 December 2025 23: 12

In the long term, this may be the case, when our Far East is completely empty of people. China is looking ahead 100 years, but certainly not now. At most, it will fend off other contenders, staking its claim.
horseradish

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16 December 2025 14: 44

Of course, our authorities won't pay attention to this, so as not to irritate their Chinese friends.
Potapov

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19 December 2025 12: 56

What ally... The ally is Kim Jong-un... China is a temporary companion for capitalist Russia...