Empires come and go. The Soviet/Russian Empire lost the Cold War and imploded. Putin wants to give the illusion he is going to rebuild the empire.
As China grows exponentially with its economy, the Russians fade with their economy.
Chinese exponential growth has for the present ceased and in fact reversed.
Strangely believe it but China under Xi is reverting to the government control of business and industry and eliminating private and foreign ventures. That mean business by control of the CCP which means the growth of the CCP oligarch class that destroyed the Russian economy
I don’t think the CCP has the wherewith all to make business and the economy grow