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Please reference their previous attempt at "gaining combat experience" in 1979. They lost to the Vietnamese.

I'm also old enough to remember when the PLA attempted to "gain combat experience" in Sudan too.
They abandoned their weapons and ran away.

One of the problems of sending troops into another country's territory, ostensibly to demonstrate support, to support their operations, and "gain combat experience", is interoperability. Language barrier, radio communications interoperability, separate chain of command blurring the basic military principle of "unity of command", are all a recipe for disaster.

So the only "combat experience" they'll "gain" is sitting inside the Russian logistical support bases guarding the perimeter.

Just as the Europeans did in Afghanistan. The German contingent sat inside the wire in Mazar E Sharif for 3 years and got fat. They never conducted a single combat operation in 3 years. That was their, "combat experience".

The French DID leave the wire once. Once. And lost a whole platoon because they only had one radio, and nobody could talk to them. That was their, "combat experience".

Even a simple thing like different uniforms and weapon calibers.

And we're right back to logistics again.

Chinese small arms have not been compatible with Russian small arms ammunition for years now. How will the Russians support them logistically? And if not, then how will the chinese, who are entirely lacking in long range logistical support units in their TO&E, support those units in combat?

You can't just hang a unit out in the breeze like that and hope for the best.

Unless the experience you're looking for is getting slaughtered.

I've done this dance for over 30 years and on 4 different continents sunshine. You can either learn or not. I care not which.