While China persecutes Christians, Russia supports a restoration of Christianity after 70 years of Leninist rule.
In Putin's Russia, the Communist Party is running a candidate against him. In China, the Communist Party exercises an absolute monopoly of political power and nobody runs against Xi Jinping.
-Pat Buchanan
Read on:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/01/patrick-j-buchanan/what-is-americas-mission-now/
Perhaps the uSA prefers socialist ties with China.