Nope.
Doesn’t work soon enough.
They need the food NOW.
They’re getting it now.
They’ve been doing this for over a decade.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1644418/3-china-voracious-buyer-foreign-agricultural-land/
“Chinese investment in agriculture abroad has soared to at least $94 billion since 2010, with almost half of that invested in the past two years, according to statistics from US-based think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.
Private and state-owned Chinese enterprises have made investments covering nine million hectares (22 million acres) in developing countries as of 2012. But in recent years, attention has shifted to Australia, the United States and Europe.
Here are some of China’s biggest overseas agriculture deals:
In 2016, Chinese property developer Shanghai CRED went in with a local mining group to purchase the biggest ranch in the world – S. Kidman & Co in Australia, which owns 185,000 cattle and controls 2.5 per cent of all the country’s agricultural land.”
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/27/723501793/american-soil-is-increasingly-foreign-owned
etc etc