All the choke points were against China. But China has worked around it

In time to come, as far as China is concerned, those choke points are becoming increasingly less relevant. In any case, those choke points were created to cater to only one objective - to strangle China's dependence on energy. And China seems to be the only country exploring solutions to overcome its vulnerability. The same way that China is finding ways to overcome the projection of power using aircraft carriers by investing in hypersonic drones and missiles with longer reach.

China predicted the USA's agenda after the Iraq War of 1991 and had several decades to plan its counter. All the setups - the BRI, the building of oil pipelines connecting countries from the North, West and South began in earnest, the setting up BRICS and SCO with Central Asian countries, the building of massive dams for hydropower, wind farms and solar farms and the mass transition of its entire transportation system moving to electrification are all not by luck but by necessity and for National Security.

The biggest blessing in disguise of all the effort put in must be the pushing of Russia into China's orbit by the USA and the West. The Ukraine War and the sanctions realistically let China have access to Russian energy on the cheap and on a platter.

The investments in the BRI also enabled China to evade all those choke points to some degree and is paying dividends as trade expands. The formation of SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organization) with the participation of all the Central Asian economies ensured China's ability to access and capitalize on the BRI project. Of course, there were mass demonization of the BRI regarding its debt traps and all that hubris, which is to be expected.


Anonymous