• @[email protected]
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    26 months ago

    They also don’t have much of anything China needs. Penalty the biggest value is in keeping other powers busy dealing with Russia. After that maybe oil and gas? Birch wood a distant 3rd?

    • nukeM
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      16 months ago

      If we’re going to be credible: freshwater, energy, and people. Those are the 3 things China will take from Russia.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        Ahhh, I always forget about water. Even though that’s supposed to be the next east trigger (like Syria).

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      5 months ago

      Any number of other mines and deposits, and land that will get increasingly not terrible. It’s just a big area, there’s bound to be good stuff. Also they’re still butthurt about the lost Qing territory.