China is probably not yet ready to mount a complex air-sea invasion of Taiwan, with the mighty USA at its back. But it would have no real difficulties making land invasion into Russia.
Taiwan… not yet, too hard, but Russia is officially a GO opines our dunk tank subject, further free military advice for China can be found in the article
Why though?
Stupid idiot with no conception of anything beyond map painting games.
Why attack Russia? They couldn’t occupy it, you would need to erase the local language and replace it with Chinese which isn’t going to be something you get away with in current China not to mention the way the rest of the world would use this. Takeover or occupation is off the table. So what else? Install puppet that does what you want? Russia is already trading with China and doing what they want (mostly). What benefit does China get out of this? Unfair trading relationship? They’re communists, not capitalists, a colonial style unfair trading relationship like the west enters into by installing puppets everywhere in the world is not ideologically on the table for them.
It’s so fucking stupid. It really highlights how stupid these people are and that they really don’t understand anything at all.
“Attack your biggest ally so we can have easier time attacking you later. Sincerely, your biggest enemy” - nothing more than that, and even US diplomats are like that just not this openly, so what you expect of some random journo.
Many Chinese (ultra)nationalists have long dreamed of retaking Vladivostok (Haishenwei), which is still one of the painful points along Sino-Russia relations and many see it as a great humiliation that must be avenged. The goal is to weaken Russia so much that eventually Russia has to cede Vladivostok back to China.
It will also cut Russia off from access to the Pacific (one of the most salient problems for both Russia and the USSR that have shaped their geopolitics in the Far East for more than a century) that could further subjugate Russia under China’s control.
This may not happen now but eventually China will want it back.
Don’t see anything like this happening unless there’s regime change in Moscow and Russia becomes a western puppet. On the contrary, it seems that cooperation in far eastern ports is what’s on the actual table.
Ultras are just being ultras.
Because some Chinese boomers cry about it,or is there a material reason you think so?