Young Chinese want to move to shiny cities to get rich, they don’t want to move to a Siberian outpost. The older Chinese who are used to a harsh existence are aging and dying off. Chinese are not itching to move to the bitter cold of Siberia. Even the Chinese in dongbei are moving south to escape the harsh cold. Hainan is overrun by dongbei people.That is why Russia will have no choice but to become closer to Europe and even the USA.
China is the real threat to it and it should stop pretending that it is on the same level as USA or even China now. It needs to join the Europeans as it can only protect itself from Chinese expansionism by joining the Western alliance.