I mean how else do you interpret history if not in hindsight?
I'm not saying they shouldn't have done it, or I don't understand the context in which they are doing it, but it didn't create a very long-lasting coalition of socialist countries and the USSR no longer exists.

China is taking a different path, I think understandably, and we will have to wait and see if it works.
It's not as if in a similar vein a lot of Global South counties aren't throwing their support behind China because of the BRI as well.