I don't know about China, but Russia took a page from their own playbook since war with Ukraine is not much different with what happened with Georgia (South Oss

I don't know about China, but Russia took a page from their own playbook since war with Ukraine is not much different with what happened with Georgia (South Ossetia, Abkhazia), Moldova (Transnistria), Chechnya, many years before the start of the "War on Terror".