If a push comes to a shove, China and Iran too, may find it feasible to have similar pipelines to facilitate the movement of Iranian oil to China. There was already a proposal to build a pipeline from Gwadar Port in Pakistan to Kashgar, China, for Middle East oil, to avoid the Straits of Malacca, but which due to geological constraints, has been mothballed. Those constraints involve building the pipeline across mountainous terrain thousands of meters high. But China is fully capable of building at such heights, such as its high-speed rail construction in freezing conditions and low oxygen environment.
When situations become untenable due to the Middle East war prolonging and for future proofing, killing two birds with one stone may take place, which means constructing the Iran link to connect to the resurrected Gwadar Port line running towards Kashgar, China. This is just my thinking, and I am sure the Chinese are also looking forward as well to such a possibility.
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