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To answer both your questions at the same time I will say: Russia.
Why would China care more about Russia than good ties with the EU? Trump is alienating the EU, so the former western block is getting weaker. China has been successfully building the BRICS up to become more and more of an economic challenger to the NAFTA+EU+UK markets (broad category, i know). Right now China is in a trade war with the US. The more the countries attacked by the US band together, the stronger they can oppose the US.
China has strong incentives to strengthen economic ties with Europe. For that Europe needs to be wealthy enough to buy from China. At the same time the EU is not a military threat to China. With the recent escalation between India and Pakistan showing Chinese military jets to be competitive to supposedly modern french jets, China's only military competitor in the world is the US. And the US is currently dismantling itself.
Finally China is getting payed quite well by Russia for its support. If Russia cannot deliver more, i am skeptical if China would continue that.
A lot of that is shitty for Europe, but i don't see the intent of China to be to "destroy Europe".
Oh nice, our new ally is providing weapons to our enemy. That's great!
You claimed China would want to "destroy Europe". Why would it want to destroy Europe? China is profiting of the war. War profiting is pretty common and extensively done by the US, EU and other global actors too. Doesn't mean they want to destroy each other.
Also don't you think it a bit weird to work towards economic cooperation if you would want to bomb the same place? Do you think China wants its hundreds of billions of assets in the EU being blown up?
You don't need to blow up EU to destroy it.