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>How Runet Became an Appendage of the Great Firewall of China

That's a huge overstatement. Maybe in some border region some traffic was router through Chinese uplink, but in general Russian and Chinese networks are connected very loosely. My ping to Chinese sites from European part of Russia is around 260 ms, which is two times more than ping to even US sites. Same for ping to China from Western Siberia.

In terms of internet connectivity, China is even more distant from Russia, than South America.