It is an old story.

In the late 1960s, we had political jokes related to the subject.

On one occasion, Leonid Brezhnev talked on the phone with Lyndon Johnson. In the social part, Brezhnev said he saw the White House in his dream. Johnson wondered what was special about it. “There was a red flag with the hammer and sickle above it” - Brezhnev responded. Johnson replied: “It is interesting because recently, I saw the Kremlin in my night dream. There was a red flag with the hammer and sickle and some writing on it.” Intrigued, Brezhnev asked what was written on the flag. “I could not figure it out; it was in Chinese” - Johnson riposted.

Returning tho the article, Dylan is right, most likely China will be the winner of the war in Ukraine.