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Originally Posted by sglancy12
First the economic boom would have to happen fairly early.. you suggest as early as the mid 1980s. That way there would be enough time for the newly discovered minerals and fossil fuels to be discovered, exploited and brought to market. But, if the newly discovered resources are the casus belli for the Sino-Soviet war, wouldn't that mean the war would happen earlier than the canon? Would ten years really pass before the situation came to a head?
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I have the oil/gold discovered in - 1982
First profits from Gold in - 1984
First Sale of oil to Japan in - 1988
Economy fully stabilizes and expand rapidly - 1989
Japan expands Chinese investment by threefold 1993 (this happened in real life)
Japanese/Chinese Oil Exploration teams discover equivalent/larger oil fields on the Chinese side of a disputed border -1994
Faced with the reduction of their much needed profits in oil sales to Japan "disputed" borders become "conflicted" - 1995
I honestly never spent the time working out a location but given the 6 years to build a pipeline, that would probably be the limiting factor. The Alaskan Pipeline (800 miles / 1,287 km) was built in 4 years.