Fox News’ Bret Baier, in Beijing for the Xi/Trump summit, commented on the tens of millions of mopeds and light motorcycles in China. What he didn’t note is that they run on gasoline, which China does not produce and must import, much of it from Iran. Iranian oil is currently blockaded.
If those tens of millions of personal transport units are parked for lack of fuel, their owners become unhappy pedestrian citizens. Even the autocratic Xi has to consider large numbers of unhappy people are a problem he doesn’t need.
A web search produced the following factoid:
In 2022, 13.8 million gasoline motorcycles were sold in China, which includes mopeds and light motorcycles.
