Posted on 08/14/2018 11:34:12 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia has made 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of arable land available to foreign investors – and while that could be boon for Beijing as it struggles with limited supplies of soybeans in its trade war with the US, analysts are concerned about the quality of the plots available.
Valery Dubrovskiy, director of investment for the Far East Investment and Export Agency, a non-profit organisation, said on Tuesday that several Chinese companies had already expressed an interest in the deal.
With the China-US trade war showing no signs of abating, and after Beijing slapped 25 per cent tariffs on soybeans imported from America, the legume – for which China has a voracious appetite – is very much in the firing line. Chinese farmers may therefore be attracted by the offer of a huge swathe of cheap arable land in Russia’s main soybean growing region.
Beijing has already significantly reduced its soybean purchases from the US, and as a result bought a record 850,000 tonnes of them from Russia between July 2017 and the end of May, according to figures from the Russian agriculture agency Rosselkhoznadzor.
Zhang Xin, a Russian studies expert at East China Normal University in Shanghai, said that while Russia’s offer of agricultural land was a sign of the apparent desire on both sides to increase cooperation, the deal still had obstacles to overcome.
“In the Far East in particular there has been political resistance, including from residents, to Chinese companies renting land for agricultural production,” he said.
“Their concerns regard the large influx of Chinese workers and a dissatisfaction with Chinese farming methods … like using too many pesticides and fertilisers.”
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If Russia is gonna let foreign corporations grow crops, that’s one thing. If Russia plans to let thousands of Chinese move into Russian Asia, that’s a horse of a very different color. Russia has been fighting against Chinese colonization for centuries.
What is stopping China from buying up all the farmland in Iowa and Indiana?
Interesting. Siberian development. I’m sure Trump has a better answer. How about illegal alien prisoners in US jails serving their terms farming there? Feed themselves. We just give them the spices.
They should do that for South African whites. Yeah, I know - the Boers hate commies. But the world has changed.
I had an idea of putting convicted pedophiles in work camps in Alaska where they’d grow most of their own food and be among their own kind far from the means to escape.
Back in the very early days of the HIV-AIDS “epidemic,” the running joke was to give everyone who was HIV positive a one-way plane ticket to San Fran Sicko.
Then when Rock Hudson “came out” - with Elizabeth Taylor’s help - it was all of a sudden “everyone’s disease”.
Never has been “everyone’s disease.” The book by Michael Fumento “The Myth of Heterosexual Aids” pretty much dispelled THAT myth, until the homoleftists, gaystapo stormed into the publisher’s office, tore covers off the book at Barnes and Noble, started a letter-writing campaign and got the book taken off the shelves. Hell, they did everything but have bookburning fires in the public square.
I own a - forbidden - copy. Good, solid research. 1990s, but still applies.
don’t forget though, pedophiles are “born that way.”
Get over it.
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That is simply false.
Russia, in reality, had the same enemy as China: the Huns, Golden Horde, Tatars, Mongols.
None of these were Chinese.
Maybe a trade to get Port Arthur back?
Russia isn’t keeping up with current events. It’s likely easier to get the Chinese to do the work that Russians may not want to do, but it could be a lot harder to get them out when the job is finished.
they would be better off importing every South Affikaner
China’s primary problem is “desertification” where 20% of its friable soil has been made useless. so mabe they could use the gift of land.
What is stopping China from buying up all the farmland in Iowa and Indiana?
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