This is where is so laughable. Yeah, Let's get back to normal! Lol
it's like Trump keeps trying to hurt china during his term as president, Yet he keeps on about how great a relationship he has personally with Xi. Really! Just what is going on in his head? Yeah, you can spend your entire terms trying to topple me just like all those Arab countries you've done it to, BUT..... It's nothing personal! Lol
The stupidity of this type of thinking is beyond comprehension. Trump's administration is all run by kids.
The American system is designed as a kabuki theatre on purpose, so that one party can be the 'bad cop' to the other party's 'good cop' and throughout it all, american 1%er elites are supposed to benefit no matter who is in charge.
So a Democrat admin. can make itself seem like a good cop to the trumpets republican party bad cop, to get the Chinese to agree to certain concessions "or else we'll get voted out and you'll have to deal with Pompeo". Rinse and repeat with the Russians and Republicans vice versa.
By standing fast with Russia, China sends the message that what trump has done is irreversible; that Chinese tech autarky is here to stay, that Chinese-Russian entente against the Anglos will endure, that Australia is going to be destroyed economically unless it breaks ranks with the anglo FVEYEs (unlikely, but China is perfectly fine with a weakened and economically insignificant Australia).
Ditto with the Sino-Euro FTA, China with its dual circulating economy means that europe needs China more than vice versa.