[BeauBo]

Having assets allows you to outbid poorer folks, for the available food.

[NorseViking]

With all due respect I don’t think there are that poor people in China anymore. If China would have a shortage of food they’d buy it internationally like they already did.

[Hieronymus]

So the richer Chinese have assets and the poorer Chinese are more likely to starve.

That the Chinese collectively have assets doesn’t mean a whole lot—though I wouldn’t want to be a North Korean.