Russia gearing up to fight China? via Examiner.com

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Russia beefing up defenses against China
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Mar. 27 during a speech at the Viluchinsk submarine base that Russian Pacific Fleet submarines will be armed with long range high precision weapons to enhance Russia’s strategic deterrent capability.
Western naval experts are likely to interpret this announcement as directed at the United States and its Asian allies but, it’s more likely the case that this move is directed at China with the increasing distrust in Moscow over Beijing’s intentions with an ongoing military buildup.
Moscow has been building up Russian forces in the ‘Eastern Command’ which encompasses the Russian Far East astride China. Military maneuvers and exercises in the Eastern Command have also been increased among both ground and air forces, including a large air defense exercise along the Russian-Mongolian border.
China’s Peoples Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) would have a large advantage in making a massive first strike via Mongolian airspace. Mongolia has no serious air defenses to speak of or many radar sites. Russian radars adjacent to Mongolia would likely not detect a Chinese air strike until it was practically crossing the border if the Chinese flew in at low level.
Russia has also been quickly developing cheap, unguided short range wide area effect tactical weapons which have the role of striking defensively at masses of advancing troops and vehicles.
One such weapons system is the improved Buratino TOS-1; a multiple launch rocket system mounted on a T-72 tank chassis which only has a range of three kilometers and no guidance systems for targeting. The Buratino fires high explosive incendiary and thermobaric warheads which produce no shrapnel but, incinerate all non-metal matter in a target area.
Though never a subject of reporting in any news media, Beijing and Chinese in general including Nationalist Chinese in Taiwan still view the Russian Far East as land stolen from China by Russian Czars. It was not until the late Eighteenth Century that Russia fully expanded to its present borders in the Far East with China. Russia had actually annexed more land than that from China before losing some of it the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.
Beijing's views about the 'lost territories' had as much to do with the Sino-Soviet Split of the late 1960's as a difference of opinion on better ways to promote ‘people’s revolution’ throughout the world and resulted in an on again-off again border war between the Soviet Union and Red China from the late 1960’s until the Soviet collapse in 1993.
Though quiet militarily along the border since then, a new problem has grown across the Russian Far East; illegal Chinese immigration. Unlike America’s immigration problem, illegal Chinese immigrants entering Russia are young men of prime military age. No women and children accompany them.
China has been and remains a Communist police sate with tightly controlled borders. It defies common sense that millions of Chinese could simply slip into Russia looking for a job because they cannot find one in a reportedly booming Chinese economy.
Russian generals are nervous about these developments behind their lines, as well as the fact that over half of China's 2.5 million ground troops are organized into offensive units specializing in blitzkrieg style land warfare, rather than amphibious assault as would be the case were these troops training to land an invasion force over water onto the shores of Taiwan or other nearby potential targets.

Illegal immigration from China.

A massive arms buildup.

Literature from Chinese think tanks that predict a war with Russian sometime around 2040.

Yeah.  At least the Russians are taking the situation seriously.  Has anyone noticed the wildcard in all this?  The Europeans.  They have no role in what could be the most hostile fight the world has known (meaning a war between the US, free Pacific Nations and China or China and the Russians).

But back to illegal immigration.  Did you catch that last blurb?  It defies common sense that millions of Chinese are migrating to Russia looking for a job in supposedly booming China...while not bringing along their family?

Yeah.  Something other than job seeking is going on there.