Smart move by China.
They have coal within their own borders. A dependence upon imported oil when the US has the best blue water Navy in the world and friendly relationships/leverage on most of the oil producing countries in the middle east (not to mention the asian countries along the strait of malacca) is a cricial strategic vulnerability.
They have coal within their own borders. A dependence upon imported oil when the US has the best blue water Navy in the world and friendly relationships/leverage on most of the oil producing countries in the middle east (not to mention the asian countries along the strait of malacca) is a cricial strategic vulnerability.