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As an aside, large military movements use enormous quantities of oil and can tap storage and reserves quickly. In such a scenario, the nation with the most oil can have some advantages. Also, expectedly, China has bought much into oil production here and there around the world over some time. Today, there was news that China is establishing a military base in Africa.

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China's military makes move into Africa

China has business to protect there. Back around 2007, China was getting nearly a third of its oil from Africa. Much more oil is probably going to China from Africa today.

We've been told by sponsored propaganda since 2008 that there's no consumer base in China, that China collapsed every week since then, etc. Here's the truth of the matter.

Automotive industry in China
Wikipedia

While most of the cars manufactured in China are sold within China, exports reached 814,300 units in 2011.[4]...In 2010, both sales and production topped 18 million units, with 13.76 million passenger cars delivered, in each case the largest by any nation in history.[8] In 2014, total vehicles production in China reached 23.720 million, accounting for 26% of global automotive production.[9]