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They've got the Silk Road Initiative going, but it seems teat it could not even begin to replace sea traffic in a crunch.
by euroderf 4y ago
They've got the Silk Road Initiative going, but it seems teat it could not even begin to replace sea traffic in a crunch.
- anon84873628 4y agoIndeed. The silk road and new pipelines to Central Asian oilfields are crucial for China to diversify its energy sources, given the naval realities in the Pacific. So the western province of Xinjiang has become crucial... and hence the Uyghur genocide :-( The CCP, from its perspective, can't risk having a potentially rebellious ethnic group in such a critical region.