>>2512505The Russians were wanting to colonize northern China like they did with outer-Manchuria during the 1860 treaty of Peking or the subjugation of the central asian Emirates. They had to can the idea when they got rekted at port Arthur by the Japanese. However the Manchurian Railway Corporation briefly became a defacto independent republic during the Russian Civil War when the loyalist Dimitri Horvat was declared president by the Russian refugees that settled in northern China.