Posted on 09/26/2020 3:54:07 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Soylent Green for the Win \o/
Surely something like feeding their population is no problem for such a formidable world power.
Could be that their priorities are way off.
“Released 62.5 tons of rice, 50 tons of corn and 760,000 tons of soybeans....”
For a country with China’s population, the amount of rice and corn seem low compared to soybeans. I wonder if that was a mis-print for those two amounts?
Eventually something happens that brings those priorities back in line.
If the US does not get our priorities right, we will find ourselves in the same boat.
Well we’re not too far behind IMHO.
The new chinese cookbook is flying off the shelves.
101 ways to wok your dog.
That's right. Remember the sweeping of the supermarket shelves during the early days of the COVID panic? Isopropyl alcohol disappeared; toilet paper disappeared; and meat counters were sorely depleted. It doesn't take much systems disruption to cause trouble. And, China's had a bad combo with the floods, the swine fever, and the other items mentioned in the article.
Also just before the virus hit them, chickens and hogs (Chinese meat staples) were hit with various diseases and most were killed.
Since then they’ve sent their massive fishing fleet to rape the waters were ever they can - including the Galapagos Islands
We had ration books in Cuba. Communism loves ration books.
In almost every instance, famines are caused not by actual insufficient amounts of food, but by failure to make the necessary accommodations to assure a supply line is always available and being utilized by the government authorities involved.
The United States and other food-producing nations around the world have more than enough capacity to take up the shortfall in Chinese harvests, and they are willing to make that largesse available to the Chinese government. But Xi Jinping, in his wisdom, cannot or will not divert resources to meet this internal crisis (largely due to his intransigent actions and diplomatic responses), as that would mean giving up some long-term goals that are inimical to most of the Western world and other Asian nations.
The CCP gave; the Western world COVID-19 Wuhan virus, and they are reaping the whirlwind. I feel not a bit sorry for the CCP, but they have subjected a billion and a half human beings to their own mistakes and vehement bilious tantrum.
Prepper ping
What? No Golden Shower pork?
They may be asking DjT for food. I also haven’t heard if the 3 Gorges Dam has held. If it fails, they’re screwed.
The commies won’t mind much if they lose a billion here, or a billion there.
In your fortune cookie:
“That wasn’t chicken.”
I could see some hefty inflation in Chinese food prices and spot shortages this Winter, but it would surprise me to see actual famine. They have a lot of assets that could be sold, before people start starving.
Belt tightening and substitutions seem to already be occurring.
Real famine is not inconceivable over the next few years though, in some worst case scenarios.
Feeding their population is not really much of a concern. If a few hundred million starve o death, it will be a needed reduction in population. The leaders do hav to wory about what that does to the Mandate of Heaven, and yes, that is a concern in the back of their minds.
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