What would happen if China decided to assert themselves in their quest for sovereignty? Russia is one of the first neighbors that would have to contend with the problem. Right now China pays for things from Russia because it has to in order to get them. If China suddenly changed places in the global pecking order things would get quite ugly for Russia, and quick.
Right now Russia has China feeding out of their hands. They can stump Chinese industry by feeding them the solutions that are little to no effort to reverse engineer and leak them ways to do things that look right but are actually quite wrong from a effort-reward perspective. And since China is effectively riding the coattails of Russian technology there is less chance of a change in the status quo.
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