Those who wistfully believe that China acquiring oil from Saudi Arabia (and others), for example, yet not require oil from South America, for example, are 100% dead wrong in their erroneous assessment. We are looking at a zero sum energy game here, with a rapacious China unreasonably demanding an ever greater, disproportionate share of energy resources throughout the Pacific and around the globe.
I generally tend to concur with those who foresee a 150% (I believe personally believe that greater than 150% is more correct) increase in China's energy demands in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, I would submit that China's brazen, shameless drive for resources among other factors (Taiwan, island claims like the Senkakus or Okinotorishima; unfounded expansion of its EEZ; submarines ending up where they do not belong… etc) is placing it firmly and irrevocably in the path of military conflict.
But we don't want to be too harsh with the Chinese.
If we are, they might not want to buy U.S. bonds any more.
And then the politicians wouldn't be able to spend taxpayer money to keep themselves in office.
"with a rapacious China unreasonably demanding an ever greater, disproportionate share of energy resources throughout the Pacific and around the globe."
Well, I agree with pretty much everything you said, but how can a 'rapacious' country that is 1/5 or so of the world population be considering to be "unreasonably' wanting a 'disproportionate' share? Hyperbole detracts from your other points
better to be direct and just call it a competition for resources with limited extraction capacity where the opponent is growing quickly and demanding more, and there isn't enough to go around.