that is why we can work with him. we understand how Mongols think. From Xiongnu, to Xianbei, to Mongols, now Russians, Chinese have always understood how the northern empires worked.
They are a fierce, proud warrior people, not too good economically and need to trade resources for manufactured products from China. If we get weak, they can conquer us, and if they get weak we can conquer them, but when we are both strong, and have mutual respect, both our societies can thrive.
Typically, the northern empires always direct their attention westward if we simply are too strong to deal with, like how Xiongnu ran away from Han and attacked Rome instead.
True. When you understand the Russian mentality, you realize how foolish it has been for the Western alliance to keep trying to humiliate Russia.
They are a people who would lose their own limbs to cut your face for insulting them.