How long until China looks at all the Russian Land as easy to take?

Russia is supposedly a friend to China, but really China needs more land. Why fight and loose a million people over Taiwan and risk nuclear war, when they could invade Russia instead. Crossing a land border. There would be no help from the West for Russia at this point, and China would win easily. A massive land grab with no boundaries.
Take out the nuclear bunkers on one massive attack and then move your recliners in.

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Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M

I've been thinking that too but according to Peter Zeihan China only has about 10 years left and they have nobody left to run the place when the current dictator dies. He killed off everyone else. Putin has done the same thing in Russia. Both countries have terrible demographics
No kids. All old retired folks. The world is going to change a lot.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Tastyfrzz I think China would have the greater chance of continuity despite both countries' economic and demographic problems. Although its Presidents are there for life or until they step down (or are deposed?) they and the central government are basically caretakers for the time being of a system designed for far longevity.

What happens to Russia after President Putin is anyone's guess, and I doubt even the most knowlegeable diplomats and analysts can guess it very accurately. His going could well leave a dangerous power vacuum that bodies like the Wagner Group would exploit. (It is still very active, under a different name which I forget, especially in Africa.)

The more difficult country to assess on this basis is North Korea. Kim Il Jong is thought to be grooming his daughter, now in her early teens, as a possible inheritor of this dynastic dictatorship whose own "ism" term is "Kimilism".