China pumps 4.5 million barrels/day. Burn rate is 14. Pipelines from Russia and Kazakhstan supply a few. The rest by sea from Iran and KSA.
They would not starve. They have enough to move food.
There is a big difference between Taiwan’s 0 and China’s 4.5 mbpd.
China has other weaknesses, a certain huge dam, for example.
4.5 millon barrels/day??
Wow!!!
The Unites States, with an economy that is not that much larger than China’s, uses 20 million barrels per day with a much smaller population.
China has to import 72% of its oil needs.
It has to import most of its fertilizer and has the poorest farmland in the world.
China owns 50% of the world’s hogs, its staple meat for consumers, and has to import the feed for the hogs from the west - the United States and Brazil.
China, with its big dam in the crosshairs, is not going to attack Taiwan. The time is past for sending an army over 100 miles of open sea. Sitting ducks.
Missile attack? No. China is not interested in acquiring rubble.