Russians take China instead of Manchu?

What about a Catholic Russia-Poland-Lithuania sending missionaries cathechizing Mongols or Manchus that somehow take parts of China and keep an ambiguous relationship with Mother Russia? (à la OTL's relations between Portugal and Kongo or Portugal and Ethiopia)

That would make a hell of a TL.

Kongo and the Portuguese is no where near the level of China and the Russians. China isn't easily accessible by sea, China is massive, Russia doesn't even have the Trans-Siberian railway, and China wasn't a big focus for the Russian empire anyways.

Everything is stacked against this ASB idea, the politics, the logistics, the military, the culture, the technology, the demographics and the geography. Why not unite Europe under the Papacy while we're at it and have it conquer Eurasia and colonize Africa by 1600?
 
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Everything is stacked against this ASB idea, the politics, the logistics, the military, the culture, the technology, the demographics and the geography. Why not unite Europe under the Papacy while we're at it and have it conquer Eurasia and colonize Africa by 1600?

This "everything-against" statement is NOT grounded on the OTL examples. I'll be more sppecific and detailed in next posting, because namely in "politics, logistics, military, culture, technology, demographics, geography" this alt.construct finds it reasons.

Here you are about ideology - which is "off the shelf" and contemporary OTL/ITTL to be readily used as state ideology of the Commonwealth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavro_Orbin
 
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