I want to agree, but I don't think the Russians have learned this. Putin and the leadership certainly understood this when they flew the entire Kremlin to China for the last presidential summit, but I don't think the lesson has entered the popular consciousness. Russian appear to still operate by and large on the principle that China makes plastic junk.
One could say "who cares what the peasants think?" and there's a large degree of truth to that, but I'd still like to see the idea take root.
It's a reality that happen overnight the minute CPC decides to impose a total embargo on manufactured goods going to the Russian military, halt all manufactering of drones for the Russian war effort, and secretly threaten North Korea with a decline in material aid in order to disuade their military aid to Russia.
Or, more to the style of the CPC, they'll just let things play out until reality becomes something Russians either willingly accept or accept while chest down in the mud looking up knowing it is not whatever pitiful beg they can spit from their lips, but purely the quantity of genorisity the figure standing above them is willing to dole out, that will influence whether a helping hand gets extended to them or not. As we saw the Syria collapse, patience and knowing when to make the right move is everything.
If you see some Russians online still not getting the memo, just move on living your best life knowing this one simple fact, that one day
they will.
