So the thing is, Russian control over ALL of Manchuria means they can March into Beijing whenever they want, and essentially de facto control china. Nobody except Russia will be okay with that.
On the demographic front, even if Russia SOMEHOW gets China to cede all of it in a treaty (there's...
Actually this would make for a great p.o.d, an America trapped* before full industrialization takes hold. Keep it that way long enough and you might end up with otl us and Canada having a population like modern China. I wonder what I could do with this...
(*"Trapping" requires asbs, but still...
The ironic thing is: even if not a single farmstead was attempted west of Iowa, the great plains nomads were doomed sooner or later. Eventually they would drive bison to near extinction themselves, though it would be quite a bit longer.
But industrial tech or not, the anglos have 2 things that...
Aneexation? Hell no. Why would he want to absorb 30 million+ Chinese?
Puppetize? Possibly. At some point China will want their territory back and the Soviets know it, but that can be delayed.
Not very likely. I'd reckon somewhere in Indiac though, but still not as likely. A combination of plentiful/cheap coal and high population density didn't really exist outside of britain and wallonia at this time. Manchuria at this time hadn't been settled by han yet and had a similar population...
While this is practically asb anyways, changes in tfr means that even with basically no immigration since 1700 America COULD have as many people as it does today. Emphasis on COULD.