This sounds like indian level corruption, hell, it is indian level corruption. Insult a politician and now you've got police bashing down your door and judges sentencing you to gaol, how the hell isnt' that corruption?
Despite the much deserved mocking this article has inspired, this is also a demonstration of western/anglo psychological warfare. They are hoping to drive a wedge between China and Russia by appealing to russian anxieties over Chinese swarming into siberia. This has been a historic fear by russians particularly those europhile russians but fortuantely there has been decades of trust built up between Putin's Russia and the CPC such that intel is being shared and the Russians have even encouraged and allowed the passage of Chinese goods through Vladivostock without any duties or tariffs. Effectively, Chinese exporters can use russian ports the same as Chinese ports to get to the Sea of Japan. To say nothing of the transport of military via this route as well.
Now, i'm as irredentist as anyone here but i would trade outer manchuria for the territories of the Five Eyes in a heartbeat, turning the Pacific into a Chinese lake.
