Ricardolindo
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What if Outer Manchuria had been heavily settled by Chinese and Koreans before Russia could take it? Without Russian control over the region, would Japan get Sakhalin?
I mean, why would Russia stop if a peripheral territory had more people? It's not like they cared about wiping out peoples everywhere else in Siberia.
They weren't able to take Inner Manchuria because it was heavily settled by Chinese and Koreans.
They weren’t able to annex Manchuria directly cause it was an integral part of the Qing state, not because it was settled.
I think in this scenario you have to give a reason for mass settlement of Siberia before anything else.
Outer Manchuria is also Manchuria and was also an integral part of the Qing state.
As for how to get such settlement, have the Qing adopt a more consistent policy in favor of settlement.
Outer Manchuria is also Manchuria and was also an integral part of the Qing state. However, it had less Chinese and Korean settlers than Inner Manchuria.
As for how to get such settlement, have the Qing adopt a more consistent policy in favor of settlement. In our timeline, at times, they tried to force such settlement. At other times, they tried to prevent it.
It wasn’t though.
Why would they?
I think you have to do some more reading on this because your making assumptions and they're just wrong
Literally for the exact reason @SoldierOfChrist is telling you you're wrong.I admit I am far from an expert on the history of Manchuria and I'd like to know how, exactly, my statements are wrong.
I could see potential for an essay collection looking briefly at biological PODs like that. Like if the boll weevil had arrived in America a century earlier and the impact that would've had on the slavery debate in the US if cotton plantations were becoming unviable. @Jared of course made this kind of POD the main starting gun for Lands of Red and Gold, but otherwise it's underdone.Actually, a timeline where the equivalent of phylloxera destroys poppy fields across Asia in the 1700s would be absolutely fascinating in its broad implications.