Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4843137-20140519231050/@comment-33689772-20180405015507

The area between the major Chinese population centers and Xinjiang/Mongolia is hundred and hundreds of miles of harsh, arid, steppe, hot and dry in the day and bitterly cold at night. The only food source is grass, and the only civilization is the occasional animal herder. Chinese refugees would head north... but most of them wouldn’t make it.

Now please use some basic geography before basing half of your argument on “the onslaught of Chinese people”.

You underestimate how easy it would be for Manchurian insurgents to wage a guerrilla war, especially with overwhelming local support.

You also did not respond to my points about lack of food, a stagnant and now collapsing economy, and internal political feuds.

Anyways, I’m not really in the mood for an argument, I was originally just asking about the future of Siberia. This will be my last post on this thread about this topic..