> I'm guessing the merges originate from everywhere in the world.
That is exactly the issue, when globalisation comes to an end as we are seeing it.
Why do you think many nations are already having their distro?
Naturally they aren't the kind of countries we would like to live on, but apparently we should not source all key infrastructure components from a country that is turning into 1984 as well.
Why would you need a regional linux distribution? The base is all open source, and I'm guessing the merges originate from everywhere in the world.