> least ideologically distant Far more ideological distant then you might think. The current Russia has nothing to do with communism, it's all about oligarchs

> least ideologically distant Far more ideological distant then you might think. The current Russia has nothing to do with communism, it's all about oligarchs and authoritarian capitalism. China's ideology "hates" oligarchs, but they are also authoritarian, and have common opposition so working together makes sense. But that's it. Besides "authoritarian" they share very little in common wrt. there ideology.