China, with its huge land mass and large population, and which at the time was facing warlordism and bullying by the great powers, and was wavering between tradition and westernization, was naturally an important object of Soviet wooing.
地大人眾，當時正面臨軍閥割據、列強欺凌，與徘徊在傳統和西化間的中國，更是蘇共拉攏的對象。