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We all know that Japan needed oil for its war machine. The American embargo was one reason they attacked South East Asia. All that time they were sitting on a large oilfield in Manchuria which was more than big enough and useable with drilling technology of the day. Due to sheer bad luck they didn't find it in all that time between 1931 and 1945. In the end the Chinese found it in 1959.

Suppose that the Daqing oilfield had been found somewhere between 1935 and 1938 and then three years to get operations going. What happens then?
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