

the support they provided Russia was absolutely critical for keeping Russian economy humming along after the divorce with the west.
This support basically amounted to “continued trade and ignored sanctions”. The one thing China is good at is continuing trade. They didn’t actually do much to help Russia in any other way, and in fact have made counterproductive moves diplomatically in the UN. I do have to admit them ignoring sanctions is surprising though, as even this bare minimum bar is rarely ever met by them. They helped starve out DPRK.
China has also been instrumental in organizing BRICS and turning it into a viable alternative to the Western economic system.
What good is BRICs if they don’t pursue de-dollarization and don’t assist each other militarily? I guess we get some fun conferences?
If Hezbollah was still around in any capacity that it was capable of fighting, it would be attacking Israel right now. There was a window of time to pursue de-dollarization and the Chinese explicitly rejected it and continued getting more enmeshed with the US economy instead. They rejected creating a separate economic system