[Enterprise]

I was thinking something similar. What must the sailors think of a Government which has to buy goods from a hated capitalist country for their own citizens.

[Pontiac]

These captains must be humiliated. They are the captains of war ships that have been reduced to young boys being sent to the corner store for groceries; baby formula no less.

Is this some kind of punishment?

How can these captains ever restore the morale of their crews?

Imagine when these ships pull in to port and the crew goes to the local watering hole for a beer. The crews of other ships will be relentless in their jibes.

“Hey look! It’s the crew of the SS Nursery.”

[Pontiac]

Another possibility is that safe foreign baby formula is in such demand that it is stolen off the civilian docks and immediately goes to black market.

So, the powerful in government decided that it was worth it to send navy ships to collect it for family types in government.

I find it hard to imagine that things are that bad in China. If they are I can’t see China’s government lasting much longer.