Posted on 12/24/2020 5:04:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
China’s high tech surveillance state will be watching how much people eat, according to provisions of a bill just introduced and sure to pass its rubber stamp National People’s Congress legislative body. Writing at Breitbart, Frances Martel is appropriately skeptical about the repeated official denials that food shortages have anything to do with the state’ss intusion into the most intimate details of life for its citizens.
China’s communist rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), introduced a bill Tuesday that would mandate a government war against “food waste” that includes ordering guests at weddings and other public events to eat less.
The bill also demands regulation of online videos showing people, particularly young women, binge eating — an increasingly popular trend on Chinese social media.
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It may be hard for Americans to understand the role of food and public eating in the Chinese mind. Banquets are a major way to demonstrate conspicuous consumption and people think and talk about food a lot more than most Westerners. One common greeting when meeting someone on the street is, “Have you eaten?”
Martel presents a number of examples of official denials of a problem that convince me that there really is a problem.
China’s dictatorial system looks strong from the outside, and appeals to people like Tom Friedman as efficient and capable of achieving great things. But what Friedman and many American elites miss is the level of dissatisfaction among those not sharing in the benefits of industrialization, while paying its costs in crowding, pollution, and high-handed officialdom. China’s focus on surveillance and state control of personal behavior demonstrates the inherent weakness of a top-down, corrupt system of governance.
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I have been seeing warnings about food shortages by some of the globalist organizations. I am trying to figure out if it could be real or is it just a manufactured crisis to justify leftist desires to enact food rationing.
Then we need to cut off food shipments. Let them starve.
Biden wants to ban food too. And beer. Pass it on.
Governors in the USA can force mask wearing. They can force small portions too. Change my mind.
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It’s driven by people wanting to eat again in an hour.
I can see concern about food being a memory from the Cultural Revolution, where millions did starve.
My wife grew up poor, and she tells me that looking at our full pantry makes her happy.
“Biden wants to ban food too. And beer. Pass it on.”
And pickups.
And gas-powered vehicles.
And guns.
And straws.
And...
It would be a long list.
Pass it on.
Coming soon to us. Always, always remember that Commies/Socialists/progressives/democratrs (all variations of the same fatal disease) ruin EVERYTHING that they touch.
Everything!
I keep wondering what it will take (if anything) to get us to rise up and take these people out. In any manner possible.
The poor in the rural areas already do this. The rich in the top tier cities will ignore this. Zero net effect.
The dumb and dumber in this country do not know what is coming their way!
This is exactly what we need here in the USA, a Food Shortage, But I propose a manufactured one. STOP ALL Truck Shipments of EVERYTHING within 100 miles of DC.
“Then we need to cut off food shipments. Let them starve.”
The Chinese state media denies all claims of a food crisis but, Beijing is reaching out to suppliers. It is on a global hunt for supplies. China’s imports of barley, corn, sorghum and wheat have jumped by more than 83 per cent. There could reportedly be a shortfall of 20 to 30 million tonnes of grain this season.
The Wuhan virus has taken a toll on them also. The virus has led to record unemployment, poverty, economic slowdown and a global backlash for their questionable actions. The main two being was it an accident or on purpose? Too many factors can say accident. So many parts of the world are hammering them back for what they caused. And, of course, life means little to them as demonstated by the selling of human organs stolen from domestic prisoners. This is what happens when a third world country in it’s youth continues the course.
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I think it’s manufactured and it’s also them probably unintentionally broadcasting their plans for us.
I have come to notice that when the left warns about something, it’s like it’s what they have planned for us if/when they can manage it.
We already had a taste of it this year with toilet paper and other paper products and earlier this year with some meats where grocery stores limited the customers to a certain amount. Not a negative peep from the masses.
Supposedly China has an obesity rate overall of 5-6% with it being closer to 20% in cities because of the fast food. Supposedly the US has an obesity rate of 40%.
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Xi Jinping’s Food Policies Leading China Towards A Famine
https://thetaiwantimes.com/xi-jinpings-food-policies-leading-china-towards-a-famine/6129
TTT New Delhi: China’s President Xi Jinping has reportedly earned his peoples’ wrath for ignoring the dietary needs of 1.4 billion people.
At present China is facing a massive food shortage with prices having increased by over 15 per cent, and pork products in particular suffering.
This is seen largely as the outcome of a combination of a deluge in the Yangtze river basin, crop damage, and African swine flu.
People are now left dreading the intensity of the problems they face, which some have said could be worse than the 1959 famine.
Xi Jinping’s ‘Clean Plate’ programme has, instead of earning laurels, generated a nationwide displeasure against the statesmanship of the president who is still proclaiming that China’s grain output has increased over the past year, even though Beijing has been forced to roll out over a million tons of rice, soy bean and corn from its national reserves recently.
According to Jianli Yang, published on the internet opinion portal ‘The Hill’, the Chinese Academy of Social Science has already stressed the need for agricultural reforms to curb the food shortfall, otherwise the situation will worsen in the coming years.
Yang, a Tainanmen massacre survivor, also wrote that ‘It is difficult to ascertain the real situation since information coming out of China may not reflect the true severity of the crisis. However, Xi’s statements on the need for “gastronomic discipline” are reminiscent of similar instructions issued by Mao in 1959, at the beginning of the Great Famine (1958-1962). A combination of factors indicate that China is at risk of this history repeating itself — a massive food shortage that could worsen into one of its biggest crises since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.’
A researcher with the State-run Rural Development Institute, Li Guoxiang, told an international news agency, AFP, that food resources in China are not enough to support the people.
In India, recently at loggerheads with China over Beijing’s territorial aspirations in the Indian areas of the Himalayas, sympathies were limited.
When asked for an opinion on the food crisis in China, a real-estate dealer in East Delhi, S. Babbar, said that it was sad that Chinese are feeling the pinch in the prices of common daily-use veggies and pork while the food shortage continues, but “ It’s divine justice. China has bitten us several times and now god is troubling them,” he added.
Given divergent claims, this is a propitious time at which Xi Jinping can re-examine the problems of his people and come up with concrete plans to resurrect their already flagging morale on the back of global condemnation for the COVID-pandemic and territorial clashes with nations around Asia.
Not only this, the people are worried about health problems that may occur if the food shortage condition worsens.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reiterated several times that acute food paucity ‘is often associated with factors which increase the risk of communicable diseases’ and this is more horrifying for the already depressed Chinese after the deprivations they have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yet, despite Xi Jinping being aware of the illness of his people, and the subsequent weakness and pain that will follow due to malnutrition if price hikes continue, he is taking it lightly.
Already, pork products have gone beyond the common man’s reach.
And no blueprints are in sight as to how to combat the reemergence of the COVID pandemic in China this week.
Indian doctors who spoke to The Taiwan Times were of the general opinion that Chinese youth will suffer mental health problems in the case that food shortages persist.
“This is a grave matter and President Xi Jinping should give it a serious thought,” said Indian doctor specialising in mental health, Dr S.S. Mann, adding “(it) is now over 200 million people in China (understood to be) suffering from mental disorders, and their treatment is being obstructed by the strict social norms that are being forced upon the population.”
Though mental health clinics first opened in Beijing and Shanghai in 1979, cultural belief that patients visiting them would be subjected to ridicule in society prevented genuine sufferers from getting the treatment they need.
But this is just a lone outcome of current Chinese policies and actions – one of many China will face if Xi Jinping does not put his people first and speak truthfully on the food shortage China faces whilst at the same time abandoning his immediate goal of becoming the second Mao.
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