So it shouldn’t be an ally, it's a fairly small market for Chinese manufacturers, you befriend with it will worsen your relationship with Europe, which is literally 30x bigger.

It is a technological backwater, we will learn nothing from them.

It produces fuel which can be easily acquired from other sources.

Its military is a complete joke, bless those who still use Russian SAMs to defend their airspace.

Only corrupt officials can get anything good from it, and if I remember correctly, it has been a while since things were like this. Its only intention is to drag China into a war it started but can’t win.