1) Russia is about to lose bigley to a backwater country called Ukraine.
2) China has a tin-pot military that has not really fought an external war since Korea.
No.
2) China has a tin-pot military that has not really fought an external war since Korea.
No.
Notice the investment from China in "Carrier Killers" https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/10/the-unusual-car... - both in boats and planes.
Russia can develop high tech weaponry, it just lacks the economy and industry to really build and field large amounts of it.
It should be firing thousand of cruise and ballistic missiles a day at Ukraine, instead you hear of a couple of missiles here and there.