I would say I completely agree, but during the Mongols and Huns time causing headaches for Russia they were mostly city-states, rather than an actual nation state yet. So Tsar-ist is as far back as you can really say and have it mean collective Russia as a whole. Gotta remember Kyiv predates all of Russia by a couple of hundred years, Rus the original city-state was a colony of Kyiv.

As far as China goes, I'm no expert either, but their history is full of hundreds of thousands or millions being killed off somehow, usually driven by man's own actions, even now men are dying lonely due to their dumb ass birthing policies. Life is meaningless to them, and women's lives are worth even less.