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Implausible Deniability | 3 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +1 
 JUST IN: China begins construction of a road connecting China to Iran via Afghanistan, creating the fastest route for China to get oil from Iran. https://image.nostr.build/22728fb414613badd86e4103a4f7e8e3cbd7e38c931662927720631961196edd.jpg
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Jose Sammut | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Does the geography check out? I wouldn't know.
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Low Information Voter | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Brutally mountainous. Engineering would be challenging af, and expensive.

But China good for it, on both counts.