Would you elaborate how you arrive at this viewpoint? From my point of view I seem to be missing some crucial information.

I think it may be we are all missing some crucial information.

I'd like to elaborate that makes sense you what information you lack. In general, competition between adversaries always exists, and in the same way that you might compensate a spy, you'd compensate a saboteur. In specific, China has a market and raw materials that are of great interest to some businessmen, Russia has materials and geopolitical connections.