http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/opinion/so-much-land-too-few-russians.htmlZitat
So Much Land, Too Few Russians
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In all, about 4.3 million people on Russia's side of the border face at least 26 million Chinese on the other side. And Russia's population over all has been declining, leaving the whole country desperately short of labor to cultivate and develop the vast expanses of Siberia. So densely populated China seems a natural, if uncomfortable, resource to turn to.
Neither country's government wants to advertise the scale of Chinese migration into Siberia to fish, mine and grow produce. Most conservative estimates put the number of illegal Chinese migrants at two million, while the Center for Migration Research in Moscow says the number of Chinese residents in Russia is projected, conservatively, to reach 10 million by 2050, making them the predominant group in the Far East.
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Millionen Chinesen, die dann auch irgendwann "beschuetzt" werden wollen. (Und ja beide sind Atommaechte ;) )