You are thinking USN blockade = war, which is wrong. Without an alternative energy route, a naval blockade might have pushed China into a desperate position thus forcing us to face off with the USN out of limited options--but with this new pipeline we have eliminated the naval blockade dilemma...
Wrong, your interpretation is flawed. Once the pipeline is complete we would not have to worry about the USN cutting off energy supplies via Strait of Malacca because when the time arises to take military action against hostile enemies we would have an alternative supply route other than the...
And today both Manchuria and Mongolia (Inner Mongolia/Mongol heartland) are part of China. They may have invaded but in the end they became part of China, making the country even bigger and stronger.
What happened in Tibet was 50 years ago and the situation is under control, what is happening in IOK is present day with a few hundreds thousand troops occupying the area.. big difference.
It is also impossible to stop a couple of fanatical monks from setting themselves on fire, but we can...