If I were China, I would pay the Democrats and some Reps to alienate the Russians, impose sanctions, etc., precisely to push Russia into the Chinese economic orbit.
The Democrats and large parts of the intel establishment seems obsessed with anything the Russians do (granted, a lot of their deeds are nefarious), but oblivious to similar cyber attacks and influence peddling by China. Wonder why?
Marine Le Pen observed how foolish it is to offend Russia since that would only drive them closer to China.
And it ends up hurting the Western nations including the USA.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s game in the 1970’s was to balance things between the old USSR and China, not to push one country into the arms of the other.
China can afford higher payments to offshore accounts.