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Old 10-09-2018, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Olefin View Post
One thing to keep in mind is that China until the mid-90's really didnt import fuel - they just didnt have enough cars to need more oil than they produced - so the real question may be how quickly did the Soviets damage their oil producing centers to where it became necessary to import fuel to keep their war effort going?

Given the success of the initial Soviet invasion how much of China's oil production would have been either in their area of occupation or in range of tactical aircraft in say the first six months of the war?
Their oil consumption would definitely be up even if there weren't a lot of imported oil to begin with. All of their armed forces should be using significantly more oil on a wartime footing versus peacetime. Also depending on how you interpret the winter of 1995-96 ""Winter had witnessed a flood of new modern equipment through Chinese ports from NATO nations particularly the United States." Depending on what you classify as modern equipment we sent them. The only equipment we gave to them for sure were Tank Breaker/Javelin systems and Assault Breaker/MLRS/ATACMS/JSTARS systems. We may be sending the Chinese 100s of Abrams Tanks as well, not exactly known as the Prius of Tanks.
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