Part of the country series of articles.
| People's Republic of Manchuria | |
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| People’s Republic | |
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| Capital | Harbin |
| Languages | Mandarin, Manchu, Korean, Russian, and many regional languages |
| Population | 68,200,000 |
The People’s Republic of Manchuria is a Soviet-aligned state in northeast Asia, established after the Red Army occupied the region at the close of the Second World War. The population is overwhelmingly Han Chinese, and the country has nonetheless built a distinct Manchurian civic identity out of the old Manchu imperial legacy and the frontier history, which it teaches in schools and which foreign visitors tend to find more convincing than they expect to. China regards the republic as a national humiliation of the same order as Taiwan and keeps pressure on the border through sporadic artillery fire and periodic military threats.
The republic allows a degree of personal and economic freedom that sets it apart from comparably positioned Soviet-aligned states. Foreign businesses operate in its cities, citizens travel with relative ease by regional standards, and remittances are a significant source of foreign currency. Relations with Korea and Japan are commercially productive, grounded in the heavy industrial plant the Japanese built during the occupation and which Soviet investment afterwards expanded rather than replaced. Manchuria is a major producer of steel and photoelectrics, and its technical workers are in demand across the region, which the government permits and quietly profits from.