An economic crisis, a frustrated male populace, sounds like a recipy for disaster

A disaster for China, yes. And there's all sorts of ways it could be a catastrophe for the entire region.

Maybe China thinks the best solution would be to simply roll on Siberia and take it over.

Or simply take over the rest of SE Asia.

The Himalayas prevent them from just swooping in on India, tho.

It would spiral into south east Asia, Eastern Africa, and probably affect the border with Napal/India

Heh. Just imagine China attempting to colonize Africa.

It'd be an interesting outlet for their overabundance of young males.

They're already doing that

Well they are right now by putting the governments into crippling debt.

By force, I mean.

Like, literal colonization.

Oh, well

Eventually

Yeah they won't do that 😛

"This isnt chess it's checkers"

Wait

Kek.

Hmm

Also major interruptions of oil out of the middle east would fucking wreck China

It's go.

Where does China get most of its oil from right now?

Middle East primarily and Canada

It's trying to migrate away to other countries.

It has it's own oil production but who knows how long they'll want to drain their own supply.

Some quick research tells me they get most of their imported oil from Southeast Asia

Overall they have their hands everywhere

And they have become dependent on import in the 90's

I remember them doing a big deal with Canada for their sand oil.

The dirty oil.

Yeah I think they are projected to pass the US as the worlds largest consumer of oil. *Drink up*

Wait if China has become dependent in the 90's, and their population has since grown by about 25%+

This means they'll likely also be facing an oil crisis

China is also a huge importer of produce

They import everything basically

got a need for feed

Which is why they are aggressively pushing into the sea lanes

Oh fuck you're right

That must be the whole reason for this nonsense

If they become involved in a conflict with the US over some petty third world stuff, they don't want to be limited by our navy.

Yeah, well, China has little to no naval tradition or experience. The first time they go up against us, unless they get a really lucky break with their new tech, they're gonna get roflstomped the same way they did during the First Sino-Japanese War of the 1890s.