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Originally Posted by sterlingice
That said, I'm sure China is also like "Russia's big but a lot of that land is really useless" and they have no desire to go in and just take it wholesale. Maybe they'll start annexing part, saying there are ethnic Chinese there.
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I think a lot of that unpopulated land actually has a lot of natural resources, including petroleum, uranium, and rare earth metals (IIRC, I could be wrong).