User blog comment:Callumthered/Independent Manchuria?/@comment-32656-20120122105029/@comment-1310192-20120122144311

Indeed. Plus, the Manchu people are now a minority in the region, and they've been mostly assimilared; their language is nearly dead now. There's no ethnolinguistic reason for a Manchu state as a buffer, unlike East Turkestan's, and, since back then the Chinese Communists and Soviets were allied, there would be no need for one.