Ueshiba trained was trained in Daito Ryu by Takeda Sokaku prior to his founding Aikido. High level Daito Ryu methods very much embody the type of skills that he was famous for, and they have some overlap with Tai Chi and Bagua in how the body is used and how things are explained. Although it is possible that Ueshiba saw or trained a bit of one of these Chinese arts, there was no need to for him to learn the type of material he appears to have practiced his whole life, it is all right there in Takeda Sokaku's art.