Border Issues
On the whole the two largest Communist nations in the world get on fairly well. For a while there were border skirmishes and threats, but things appear to have settled down. They are in perfect accord at the Security Council, both opposing the other permanent and short-term members with respect to Syria. And both appeared, among a handful of other countries at a meeting in Tehran recently to support another call forOn the other hand, there have long been rumblings of a potential disagreement of quite impressive proportions brewing between Russia, a country that has steadily seen its population diminishing, and China which has been experiencing - despite population control through its one-child-per-family policy of uncompromising vitality - grow exponentially. And China is in need of more room.
More room to house its expanding population. More room upon which possibly agriculture can be undertaken, even in godforsaken parts of the world. And there is plenty of room in the Far East of Russia. Not only room but natural resources just waiting to be exploited. If any country is omnivorously hungry for natural resources of all kinds, it is China, relentlessly industrialized.
China has a way of covertly sending out its people in an innocent-enough-seeming initiative to foster goodwill among nations, gifting them with cerebral and hard-working Han Chinese. Truly, it can be said with honesty that China's most impressive resource is its people; industrious and ambitious to succeed. China has colonized Tibet, and it needs more, much more room.
And it just happens that Russia whose population is finite and growing finitely less, occupies the largest geographical area on this planet for a single country. Much of its Far East is sparsely inhabited. China could go a long way to changing that. And the Chinese presence on Russian territory is steadily growing with a steady influx of Chinese migrants.
Russia's current population of 143-million, though large, is minuscule compared to China's in excess of 1.3-billion. Causing Russia to become more concerned than ever about the "excessive expansion by bordering states". Its new government has a new Ministry of the Far East. A new initiative was to bring 400 families from former Soviet republics to the Far East to establish a more robust presence.
Labels: China, Immigration, Political Realities, Russia, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Friday, August 10, 2012
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