Russia blocked flights from China soon after word spread of coronavirus, but waited until March 18 to block EU flights. London - Moscow flights remain unrestricted, even as rest of the EU blocks off UK's new strain. This is telling where kremlins' actual reference points lie.
This is why I laugh whenever Westerners or their local Russian agents gaslight us about "rising Chinese influence." The primary problem was, and remains, a culturally Occidentophile comprador elite (idol worshippers before the West, as Soviet ideologists correctly put it).
As many cynics believe, main difference between liberals * kremlins is that former want unilateral surrender, while kremlins hope to claw out more equitable terms from which to integrate themselves into Western elites. Hence, Russian "provocations" really just= "hard bargaining."
Don't know how true this is. But what's clear is that Chinese soft power is pathetic in relative terms, Sino-Russian relationship defined through trade & joint military exercises (i.e. largely state-curated activities that are hardly unique to Russia/China).
As such, as it's clear the primary military (NATO), economics (sanctions, CAATSA), cultural (West idol worship + SJWs, BLM, etc), even epidemiological threats from from the West, I think Russian Sinophobes (anti-China signalers) are either useful idiots or agents of the West.
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