first, if Russian collapsed, then the west would turn to deal with China fully, so in this case, China will help Russian anyway, but the way is not so clear and need to observe. of course, the preparation has never stopped, you can check China and Russian oil contact, currency-exchange contact
经国务院批准,2014年10月13日,中国人民银行与俄罗斯联邦中央银行签署了规模为1500亿元人民币/8150亿卢布的双边本币互换协议,旨在便利双边贸易及直接投资,促进两国经济发展。互换协议有效期三年,经双方同意可以展期。
经过多次谈判,中国石油天然气集团公司(下称“中石油”)终于从俄罗斯扩大了进口石油的规模。俄罗斯未来25年每年将向中国供应4600万吨石油。中石油将为俄石油支付700亿美元的预付款。但双方并未透露此次原油出口协议的具体价格。
these two contacts on doubt have political considerations which are kinds of preparations for today's situation Russian is facing. you can regard them as tools, however, how to use it need to be seen.
US is good at monetary war, but this time China takes part in, the monetary war will be much more interesting, we just wait and see. there will be unexpected consequences ahead for US.
seond, Russian internal stablity keeps well compared to the American's strikes. Russian has the biggest territorial area, huge reserve of oil, gas, forest,water which are fundation of Russian economy now. even a gas trade with China alone can supply Russian for a pretty while when China is annoyed by surplus of production.
third, look at Russian recently military activities, if you think it is only swagger, then you don't really understand Putin, he will do anything to keep Russian alive when the US is facing its troubles at the same time . i don't mean the ww3, but military is a choise in a degree if......