It's better to sit quiet officially and prepare a good political counter or to shake the hatchet? All depends which solutuion do you support. Consider the following:
1. Strategic alliance of Russia and China against the only global superpower is a fact
2. Chinese dependance on American market in a fact
3. Chinese dependance on Russian resources is a fact
4. Future dominance of China over far east Siberia will be a fact within a decade
Some estimates are that there are 20 million legal and illegal Chinese living in Eastern Russia. There is a huge section of Siberia that was originally Chinese and they have never accepted Russian dominance.