Part of it used to be Chinese during the Qing dynastyMy first question is why the hell would they want it?
It's frozen over and desolate one half of the year, and a mosquito infested nightmare the other half.
Say the aftermath of 1911 revolution goes better and China doesn't collapse into the warlord era
Would China have been able to annex the parts of Siberia during the Russian civil war
Could they keep it long term