maybe ~ maybe not ~ Russia is currently as it was in the past, a Christian power. China is no longer Confucian and has a very large Christian population these days ~ probably mostly RCs and Baptists or Baptist-like churches ~ many of them underground or secret.
Still interesting as all get out.
The thing to watch for is a tipping point where Chinese are mostly Christian.
Actually, it will be interesting to see what happens when the Chinese translation of Fr. Damascene's
Christ the Eternal Tao is complete. Will the ChiComs suppress it? Will it generate Chinese converts to Holy Orthodoxy? (There was a large Chinese Orthodox community prior to the Boxer Rebellion -- one can find icons of the New Martyrs of China.)
The book takes as its starting point the observation that the Chinese conception of the Tao is completely analogous to the Neoplatonic conception of the Logos, which St. John the Theologian "baptized" and applied to understanding who Christ is in the opening of his Gospel. Indeed, the classical Taoist conception of the selflessness of the Tao, may make the philosophical notion a closer fit than the one St. John had access to.