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China is your bigger threat Russia is not. Russia just wants the FSU region world to be theres and be left alone. Russia does not have the population or homogenous enough to be like China can be. Even if USSR 2.0 is started it would have many different ethnicties in it and muslims. Russia like that cannot challenge USA for now. China can.
China arguably has more potential than Russia for separatism I would say. In terms of threat I suspect part of it comes simply down to culture in organisations like the CIA which have always been opposed to Russia, part that Russia is arguably more of a threat to the wealth the large corporations and rich individuals? It tends to become involved in various oil disputes where as the Chinese at present help enrich the elite in the west via access to cheap labour.