WI: Russia in the EU?

Your entitled to your own opinions.

I’m not talking direct annexation at this stage. The first stage is infiltration. The Chinese basically want to send there workers to Russia to live there, become citizens and live life. However they don’t want them to forget there obligations to the Chinese state. When the Chinese state comes calling for favours in Russian Asia, they know where to go.
Oh Lord — again with the old “Chinese migrants will overrun Siberia” adage?

Has no one told you yet that the number of Chinese migrants in Russia has been dropping for years at this point?

https://www.scmp.com/comment/insigh...ts-chinese-takeover-russian-far-east-are-just

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/why-russia-is-not-losing-siberia/

Incidentally, anyone else find it funny how the “China will own Siberia” meme is a standard talking-point for both Russian AND Ukrainian nationalists? :p
You'd need to avoid the worst of the 90s in terms of the effects on the Russian economy and Russian politics.

Easiest way? President Bush the Elder gets re-elected in 1992, and carries out his plan for a "Second Marshall Plan" for the former Warsaw Pact and USSR. With actual focused aid and development, the former USSR enjoys much more stable growth and development in the 90s, to say nothing of a more concrete foundation for Democratic government. Oddly, a lot of investment and offshoring that OTL went to China instead went to Russia
I doubt this.

From my understanding, much of the outsourcing that went to China in 1990s was relying on a large number of low-cost workers to perform unskilled labour. By contrast, 1990s Russia has neither China’s demographics nor is the work-force particularly unskilled (despite certain groups frequently denouncing the quality of the Soviet education system the West (and China for that matter) wasn’t opposed to soaking up the post-Soviet brain-drain)
 
Personnaly I don't think a Russian EU membership would be considered, the country would disrupt the balance in the EU.
 
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