Editing The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/China (section)

===The Russian Federation===
The presence of an American CVBG in the port of Hong Kong elicited a nuclear strike by desperate Russian Federation in the closing hours of the initial nuclear conflict. Although the AEGIS defences were able to intercept the bulk of the attack, one warhead managed to strike the carrier at port, resulting in the devastation of the harbour and surrounding cities.
Warheads targeted at the carriers escorts out at sea dispersed fallout over the hard hit region of Hong Kong.
This act of reckless aggression ended relations between the Peoples Republic of China and what little was left of the Russian Federation. Token airstrikes were carried out in retaliation, although there was little left to bomb in the desolated wastelands of post-nuclear Russia. Troops were deployed against the remnants of Russian ground forces but quickly withdrawn as fallout drifted eastwards form the devastation of Europe.
Unable to exact vengeance, the anger of the public was soon directed at the remnants of NATO and their Asian allies, culminating in the invasion and occupation of Japan.
Border skirmishes with Russian remnants continued sporadically and Russian refugees attempting to cross the frontier are shot.