Doesn’t matter if its a desperation move.
Russia is already China’s Ally against the west now. There is no turning back from this, the ships have all been burned down. The West burned them down in response to the invasion. So China, Russia, and basically all of the Asian continent might as well cooperate as they can.
Stupid foreign policy. Absolute trash to ensure all of the Asian nations to basically be forced to be against the West.
You ignore history and geography, the Russia-China alliance is only one of immediate convenience. It will disappear as soon as the current international issue leaves the front pages. They are natural enemies; geography makes them so. That long border difficult to monitor & control with the territory north of it (Siberia) sparsely populated by Russians (Who might now prefer to think of themselves as Siberians!). Also, long interior lines of defense\supply if you’re a Russian defending, if you’re Chinese much shorter lines of defense\supply. It’s not well known but Russia has a border problem now with China similar to the US, nowhere near in scope of the US but growing. As Russia weakens and they will no matter how this turns out for Putin. China strengthens vis-a-vis the Russians, the poorly settled and still poorly controlled Russian Far East will beckon more and more. Xi, his advisors, any successors in the wings and know this!