The economic modal of china is irrelevant to how their geography makes them easy to blockade. I think you might have just misread what I was saying here. I was

The economic modal of china is irrelevant to how their geography makes them easy to blockade. I think you might have just misread what I was saying here. I was saying how they don't have a viable long game _if_ they choose to start a war that the west doesn't approve of. Because they are practically land locked like the USSR when compared to the west. Nothing replaces oil as an energy source for military reach. China is decades away from having any pipelines to north siberia where most of the russian oil is. There's really nothing practical even on the drawing board atm. Pipelines are the easiest transport of oil to stop. Look at ukraine.