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Vietnam aims to start work on high-speed rail lines to China by 2030
(asia.nikkei.com)
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China has one enormous weakness it can not yet be bold in the ways Russia is. Oil/Petrol.
The PRC is not oil-rich in the same way Russia and the US are, so they import most of their oil via tankers from West Asia/North Africa (commonly known as the Middle East) and there are two potential chokepoints, the Straight of Hormuz in Djibouti (probably RIGHT NOW the biggest weak point, so much that both China and the US have military bases there that are practically in front of each other) and the South China Sea, which contains a bunch of faithful bootlicking nations such as Singapore and Australia.
China is working on several pipeline projects, but I am certain that the US is doing everything possible to stop it.
That is true, but going forward China can get oil from Russia and Iran. Also worth noting that China's nuclear and renewable energy production is accelerating. Meanwhile, China has a huge amount of leverage over the west economically right now because lots of western companies are dependent on manufacturing in China. If the west tried to interfere with China's oil supply then China can crash western economies which are in an incredibly fragile state already.