Why aren't there any events for Qing Empire to annex the Outer Manchuria area (Transamur, some chunks of territory north of the Amur river, and possibly Sakhalin) with cores? They were historical Manchurian Chinese territory, after all, and if Kaiserreich's China is revanchist enough to want to go after Outer Mongolia (declared independence in the 1910s), Hong Kong (lost to the British in the 1840s) and Macau (settled by the Portuguese in the 1500s), they'd want to get the Amur watershed (occupied by Russia in the 1850s and 1860s) back off Russia and Transamur too, no?
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The general response of the dev team to questions like this has been that cores in Kaiserreich represent the people of the area accepting a nations rule, rather than a nation's claims. There are lots of cores in the current version that I don't think this really applies to, but Transamur seems like a pretty clear case. Hmm... then again in the Kaiserreich timeline Russia only held the area from 1860 to the mid 1910s, so it probably never got as russified as historically. I could definitely see a restored Qing or strong republican China at least claiming the region.
even without cores, there can still be an event for annexation or for the transamur to be puppetted by china
I second Parokki's explanation as Transamur is pretty Russified. I broka away from Russia in the '20s, after Kolchak failed to coup the Kerensky administration and fled to Vladivostock. Qing might be interested in regaining this land, but I think most of its inhabitants prefer a despot they know above a foreign despot.
If the issue is maintaining control of the populace, what if the event mentioned that there was great opposition to a full rejoining of the land with the Qing empire, and gave the player an option of either puppeting Transamur as an "autonomous region", or fully annexing them as a state. The former option would give a slight dissent cut and moderately impact Russo-Chinese relations, while the latter option would give a colossal dissent hit, hurt relations with Russia severely, and make the addition of cores a random event with a significant time delay to represent the difficulties of cultural assimilation (much like the Mittleafrika events with the integration of the Portuguese colonies).