That’s definitely their plan for Russia.
And they know Europe has no choice but to begrudgingly turn to China as an ally when the US is not a reliable partner anymore and might even become an enemy down the line.
They already have most of Africa in their pockets.
The US will now turn into Russia 2.0, a slowly decaying oligarchy, and China will slowly but surely gain influence there as well.
We are living in the Chinese century now.
He only likes drilling because as a rapist he gets off on violent penetrations.