Guancha net is like a tabloid, it can say anything just like the Russian scholar I mentioned before. the article is nothing the state would bother to do anything, neither does it represent anybody except the author himself.
The state is constant in its acts.
Also, from the name of the author, I would suspect he is the type of people in China (as some Russians in Russia) who has the intension of sabotaging Sino-Russo relationship for various reasons including (but not necessarily only) being paid by foreign donors, I could be wrong but the chance is there. Why his name? Because I have never (in my life) seen a Chinese working for Chinese state media ever used an English or English styled name to publish articles in a state media. I assure you that if people like him repeatedly doing something "pro-China" on the surface but causing damages in fact, Xi will make them jobless, I have that faith in Xi. Other examples include "long hair Liang guoxiong/Leung Kwok-hung" a politician from Hongkong 长毛梁国雄. He is a stunch anti-Cummunist, anti-Bejing "democratic" fighter, he made the stunt of "landing boats at Diaoyu island" in 2010. China told Hongkong to forbid his boat fleets to sail. In the 1970s, we called these people "打着红旗反红旗", meaning counter revolution in the name of revolution, in today's term, sabotage the motherland in the name of patriotism "爱国贼"/patriotic saboteur.
I think the focus should not be drifted away from the main subject here, the tank biathlon, although what you and I am talking about is relevant, but let's go back to game itself.