Nevertheless, I think Beijing's leadership should remove themselves from any sense of complacency to bet that Russia will always be there to catch China's back. China should operate with urgency that she is really a stand-alone power while the big wolves are surrounding her backyard. Ultimately, you Chinese in the mainland and your leaders will have to strive to become a more powerful entity than USA and Russia combined. Right now to this day, the current size of your nuclear weapons arsenal is waaaaaaaaayyyyy too small as compared to USA's and Russia's. Your defense budget is also waaaaaayyy too small in proportion to your manufacturing capacity, population, and the amount of trade routes and Chinese territories that you have to defend. In my opinion, your President Xi Jinping should have increase his PLA standing army up to 5,000,000 troops, not cut it down further to 2,000,000. If god forbid for your sake, that USA and Russia teams up during a Trump presidency, their combined forces can run all over China or hurt her tremendously. So please have your country (China) take it very very seriously. <---end of alarmist rant/