I assume fail is NATO entering the conflict, dealing catastrophic conventional damage to Russian forces, making deep inroads into Russian territory or/and Russian society becoming extremely unstable due to the effects of the war (economical)
Situation 1: Russia keeps fighting and wearing down NATO/Ukraine in a limited war like what we see now. Russia will not stop until at least large chunks of Ukraine go to Russia and the Ukrainian government is replaced with a pacifist one. I'd say they shouldn't stop until Ukraine is entirely Russian. In this conflict, Russia and NATO/Ukraine will be trying to wear each other down for years. China should help Russia by providing resources to keep the Russian economy and industry in shape to keep grinding. In the meantime, as these sides wear down, China should build itself up so that by the time the conflict is over and both sides exhausted, China is fresh and ready to steamroll America in the superpower competition. In this case, China should keep itself out of direct weapons transfers and thus out of the mud pit and Russia seems to like that just fine because it doesn't want to be seen buying Chinese arms anyway.
There might be another situation were NATO gets directly involved but with explicit statement only on Ukrainian territory (what it was before say 2014 Crimea loss).
That's still situation 1. What separates the two is whether there is some existential threat to Russia causing the war to go nuclear. Without that, Russia will continue to grind with Ukraine and NATO and China should support Russia's ability to manufacture and put more weapons onto the battlefield to wear them down until they no longer have the resources to try to pose a collective Western challenge to China.
Right? If you are a small or middle power, you would play both sides for maximum benefit. Just one-sided smearing about "bad influence", cutting off ties with 20% of humanity, #1 GDP PPP in the world, in exchange for what? What does US offer to compensate for these loss? US offers nothing, all they can do is fearmongering.
The should hate us. Russia can't take on NATO and the US alone. Because of China's support of Russia, Ukraine will end up gone or in pieces like they deserve.
Looks like that twitter post got deleted? If that is truly an Official Ukrainian Gov't account, then China must have protested
