Assuming Tibet is not possible alone, I would cross West to East, starting in Xinjiang. Xinjiang is the only part of China I have seen in detail and it's absolutely magnificent, but I gather these days very hard to travel around. I don't think the southern road along the rim of the Taklamakan is open to foreigners, so would likely take the northern route.
I'd then figure some sort of loop taking in the southern part of Qinghai (which gets up onto the real Tibetan plateau without being in the Tibet 'SAR') and back up to follow the Hexi corridor and continue east along the Wall - Lanzhou, Xian to Beijing/Tianjin. Then probably up into Inner Mongolia and NE to Manchuria, looping around past the Korean border and down the coast a bit, maybe to Shanghai. Then west a bit to Yunnan/Sichuan and the other SW provinces, before ending the trip at the Laos border.
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