Posted on 04/02/2020 9:20:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In multiple cities across China, locals have emptied store shelves, stockpiling rice and cooking oil as fears of food shortages accelerate.
Mr. Li, a resident of Ezhou, a city in Hubei Province, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that locals have been rushing to buy rice for the past two days. It’s the same scene in other cities in Hubei, including Wuhan, Huanggang, and Yichang, according to social media and Chinese media reports.
Officials have stepped in to try to ease the panic. On March 31, the market regulation bureau of the municipal government in Ezhou urged, in a statement on its Weibo account, that people shouldn’t frantically buy up supplies, and assured that the city has abundant rice and oil for all its residents for a year. Weibo is a Twitter-like social media platform.
The municipal government of Huanggang also released a statement on Weibo, telling people on March 31 to stop buying up rice and oil, and saying that any information about the city facing a food shortage were rumors.
Outside of Hubei, residents of China’s Shandong and Gansu provinces also cleared store shelves of rice and oil.
A resident surnamed Chen living in Changyi city, Shandong, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that locals have been snapping up bags of rice from stores.
A video circulating on social media showed people making large purchases of rice, noodles, and cooking oil at stores located in the Linxia Hui region of Gansu.
The panic-buying was fueled by posts on Chinese social media claiming that some countries may soon ban food exports due to the current pandemic. That’s led to a large increase in the prices of rice and cooking oil in China.
Food security is a sensitive topic for the Chinese regime.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Check the bat caves
Uh oh!
But....but....China is back to normal.....that’s what the MSM told me.
Good time for a rod from god on Three Gorges Dam.
China is Asshoe.™
Maybe they could cut a deal with Trump for basic food components?
now we’ll have Chinese buying up the rice in our stores and sending it back to China to make a profit....
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C’mon its just a short walk to the wet market...kitty corner from that lab building.
Even the Chinese don’t believe the Chinese govt.
If the CCP is saying there’s plenty of food.....these folks had better stock up.
Hysterical. Other countries are not going to stop exporting food to China. We all depend on our exports to keep our economies going.
But I thought everything in China was hunky-dory now.....could they have been (gasp) LYING??
I think Chinese government media is running news items about empty grocery store shelves in the West to highlight the Party’s superior pandemic management skills. Somewhere in the lizard brains of the average Chinese TV viewer, this triggered a few doubts as to whether all the good news they’ve been hearing about China is real. Given the number of product scandals and other issues that ended up being exposed there, in the past decade alone, it’s hard to blame them. Hence the buying spree.
China’s collapsing
The ChiComs have a seventy year history of unfailingly providing the Chinese people with all the food they need.
Including the years where the ChiComs decided that the people didn’t need any.
But do they have toilet paper?
I dunno— ordered groceries and about 33% of my order was out of stock.
Maybe they have ... I had gone to Asian market as we were nearly out of rice. Nearly all the “white” rice was wiped out! Panic buying. Luckily my favored brown rice was well stocked!!!
Maybe they were air-shipping 15# bags back to China. I’m Asian, but just buying what we needed.
:>)
Sounds likely.
And consider: they’ll need US food to feed their peasants. They can’t step far out of line with Trump.
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