Try it the other way around. It is 2023, not 1983. Russia, or 'Ruzzia' as the propagandists call that country, plays second fiddle to PRC, and has for years. When the globalists chose to move the West's industrial production to communist China, PRC's 'stock' shot up, Russia's dropped precipitously, as did the WEST'S!
According to the April 2023 IMF World Economic Outlook, as summarized in Wikipedia, China's GDP (PPP) is the largest in the world, at $33.01 trillion USD. Second is US at $26.85 trillion USD. Russia is 6th, at $4.99 trillion USD. In other words, the PRC economy is 6.6 times that of Russia. The US economy is 5.2 times that of Russia.
The USN constructs four ships per year. The PLA(N) constructs 12 per year. China has the money and desire to knock the US off its perch as the only superpower. Russia does not have such a desire. Remember that in January 2023, USAF General Mike Minihan, stated that he expected war with PRC by 2025.
The ChiComs are as much an ally of Russia as Hitler was of Stalin. Weakened by the West (or its proxy, Ukraine), how soon will PRC take back Vladivostok, surrendered by Qing China in 1858 through the Treaty of Aigun? How even better for the ChiComs, if the West exhausts its wealth and materiel, via supplying an endless war by its proxy, Ukraine?
In the VERY short term, the only winners are the globalists and the crooked politicians. In the slightly longer term, the only winner is the PRC, after Russia and the West burn themselves out!
Since this war is costing the US only about 0.33% of its GDP annually (and Europe about 0.38%), the US can keep this scale of support up forever.
BTW I think the Chinese GDP is wildly overstated.
A more sane Russia will look to their backs at some point; they have gone off the deep end in investing everything in this war. This is a major risk to them. However I doubt that seizing the Russian far east will help the Chinese much.
Also, a Chinese offensive into Russia will open Chinese forces up to the trump card that Russia has been unable to play in Ukraine, its Air Force.
China's GDP Lie, $16T Faked, True GDP 60% Smaller Than CCP Reported.
“Try it the other way around.”
Asia’s factory activity shrinks as China’s slump, global slowdown weigh
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asias-factory-activity-shrinks-chinas-042757968.html
How much trouble is China’s economy in?
Growth is faltering and the country is flirting with deflation
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/07/17/how-much-trouble-is-chinas-economy-in
Why China’s Miracle Growth Story May Be Coming to an End
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-31/video-why-china-s-economy-is-slowing-after-decades-of-supercharged-growth#xj4y7vzkg
South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy