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China’s Energy Security Problem
According to a geopolitical security graph from Peter Zilhen, a geopolitical analyst of China’s energy security, the most secure energy supply route is through Pakistan and the Taliban, which means that if your nation has only the Pakistanis and Taliban as the most secure supply route, your nation will have serious issues.
China’s massive problem is that it industrialised and developed its economy in an international world order and economic system designed and created by the United States of America after World War II in 1945.
When President Richard Nixon visited the communist leader Chairman Mao, the United States took communist China away from its alliance with the Soviet Union by granting China access to the global economy and the international security arrangement secured by the United States Navy.
However, the United States bribed China the same way through cooperation and mutually beneficial arrangements with other regional powers.
After World War II, the United States would protect international shipping for all.
The crux of the issue for China is that they are now a geopolitical rival of the United States of America in the Far East wishing to establish the same kind of hegemony the United States has in the North American continent, being the only serious player in town.
