Just a bit of r/imaginarymaps type discussion, mods please remove if inappropriate
The US spent 250 years and expanded from east of the appalachia mountains to basically the entire north america, and is continuing expansion westward with their colonies in Hawaii, Guam and in the process of colonising Japan.
What do you guys think will be the long term geographic change of China, gain or loss? I'm talking long term (100-300 years), possibly outliving the PRC
The biggest change I can think of is that Korea will most likely become a part of China in the future. I got this impression after listening to a Yanbian news broadcast with chinese subtitles, and realised korean language (especially the yanbian dialect) sounds insanely similar to just any typical chinese dialect. It's probably even more intelligible than Minnan. That, and the fact that Korea is directly linked to China by land, and the border is a river (historically river borders are much more prone to political change than mountains). The entire coast from Dandong to Chaeryoung in North Korea is basically a plain. I could see a situation where North Korea destabilises and China comes in to rule by decree, and slowly takes steps like implementing mandarin/korean bilingualism until it is sinicised.
The US spent 250 years and expanded from east of the appalachia mountains to basically the entire north america, and is continuing expansion westward with their colonies in Hawaii, Guam and in the process of colonising Japan.
What do you guys think will be the long term geographic change of China, gain or loss? I'm talking long term (100-300 years), possibly outliving the PRC
The biggest change I can think of is that Korea will most likely become a part of China in the future. I got this impression after listening to a Yanbian news broadcast with chinese subtitles, and realised korean language (especially the yanbian dialect) sounds insanely similar to just any typical chinese dialect. It's probably even more intelligible than Minnan. That, and the fact that Korea is directly linked to China by land, and the border is a river (historically river borders are much more prone to political change than mountains). The entire coast from Dandong to Chaeryoung in North Korea is basically a plain. I could see a situation where North Korea destabilises and China comes in to rule by decree, and slowly takes steps like implementing mandarin/korean bilingualism until it is sinicised.
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