China seems like its shit bro. Why SK be hating on China? We need to push in Polands shit.
Poland is a bro, they are a close ally, and are competent. China (and Taiwan) can't be reasoned with and are constantly trying to attack us, often indirectly through Resistance Wars. They honestly won't ever work with SK or go expand elsewhere, so for SK they're just a permanent annoyance and a drain on us. They won't negotiate with SK, so /shrug. For the Jugs, they're someone who is possible to take over. Poland by comparison is a real longshot. Also kind of why Montenegro was suggestion #2 behind China, in terms of feasibility of taking over and turning into a Jugtopia.
China and Taiwan are kinda like Japan in WW2. Their pride gets in the way and they're willing to try starting fights against people they probably can't win against. And instead of cutting their losses and changing their longterm strategy, they seem to prefer to be obstinate and keep fighting a losing war - even if it results in their players giving up and quitting. And there is another issue with China, in that on the Secura server I think they are in danger of completely losing all of their territory in a similar fashion to Taiwan at some point. They've been aggressive, look vulnerable, and America just took some of their territory; China has 3 territories left and the US has 3 of theirs. It's entirely plausible that eventually China won't have any territory left.
If either Taiwan or China would be willing to bury the hatchet and work with us instead of constantly fighting against us, I think peeps in SK would be amenable to working something out, and over time that would build trust. As it stands we can't trust either of them because they're obsessed with trying to take SK down and they fuck with us at every opportunity. At this point I think a lot of people have simply thrown up their hands. Trying to work something out with them is like debating gender with Jerle or Goliath.
I mean, you're free to pick whatever target you want lol, but there were a lot of reasons that made China seem like the #1 choice (losing citizens, few allies, they've pissed off a lot of people, potentially vulnerable to a Jug takeover and their location close to SK would be advantageous to both the Jugs and SK, etc etc etc)