00:00What if Mongolia and China united? This will really shock you.
00:04Physically, East Asia would now be a superstate of almost 10 million square kilometers,
00:09stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gobi Desert and the Mongolian steppes.
00:14Together, they'd control vast deserts, mountains and grasslands,
00:18along with the world's largest population rivaling Russia.
00:22Culturally, you'd merge Chinese dynasties and traditions with Mongolian nomads.
00:27Politically, a China-Mongolia Union would give Beijing even more natural control
00:32over Mongolia's vast copper, coal and rare earths.
00:36A China-Mongolia Union would make the world look very, very tense.