this all started the day the gatherers told the hunters how the meat was going to be carved up, and the hunters let them...
Posted on 03/19/2021 12:16:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Consider U.S. farmers happy. They are exporting record volumes of products to China. Shipments of soybeans, corn and pork are bringing smiles back to the American heartland.
Or, to put this another way, Beijing is effectively acknowledging it cannot feed the Chinese people.
China's leader, Xi Jinping, recently made such an admission. Last August, he announced what became known as the "clean your plate" campaign to end what he called a "shocking and distressing" waste of food. Just about everyone saw this effort, to get the Chinese people to eat less, as a warning of food shortages to come.
Chinese officials will not formally admit China is becoming increasingly dependent on foreign food—that would be political dynamite—but it is now apparent that the country needs to buy foodstuffs from abroad.
We start in 2019, which according to Beijing was a very good year on the food front. The official Xinhua News Agency, in a piece titled "China's Food Self-Sufficiency a Blessing To World," claimed in October that China was producing far more food than it needed. The country, Xinhua reported, contained 20 percent of the global population and produced a quarter of its food. Moreover, Beijing felt it was time to brag, noting China had been able to accomplish this feat with only 9 percent of the world's farmland and 6 percent of its freshwater.
Xinhua in 2019 was exaggerating, and that became clear in 2020, an especially difficult year for Chinese agriculture. Floods in the country's south, drought in the north, typhoons in the northeast and pest infestations in the southwest took their tolls. Disease continued to spread among animals across China.
Perhaps most damaging were the floods. Floods in the middle and lower Yangtze River basin—Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi and Jiangsu provinces—from June hit rice-growing regions.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
(Another scathing non-liberal piece from Newsweek. Outstanding, actually.)
“From Soft Liberalism to Iron-Fisted Leftism in Today’s U.S. Military”
https://www.newsweek.com/soft-liberalism-iron-fisted-leftism-todays-us-military-opinion-1576950
Why don’t they just cash in some of those treasury bills and buy food?
I’m surprised those savages don’t eat the Uyghurs. they eat everything else.
One day China is far more likely to fight Russia than the United States. China has always coveted Russia’s underpopulated, rich Pacific territories and the huge untapped wealth of Siberia.
Just like Hitler needed living space and agricultural needs for Germany.
This is comical. Gordon Chang is a nutbar. Enjoy his work.
Gordon Chang reminds me too much of Gateway Pundit.
China rightly believes they should be in control of their food supply. The country's ability to feed its population from "local" sources has fallen short. So, in order to ensure food security, they will need to own additional sources off-shore.
Biden won't be Resident of the United States forever. And what is to say that another White House resident won't blockade China's access to the food market?
Exactly. If they need food, they can buy food.
That's a better use of that money than buying the foreign debt of idiot spendthrift governments (like ours), or massive military spending.
That would help balance out trade deficits, especially since our Tech Overlords don't seem interested one bit about moving manufacturing out of China.
Sorry, but you’re living in the past. China & Russia are now strategic partners. We made that happen with our stupid sanctions.
My mom used to tell me about starving Chinese kids when I was young and didn’t want to eat my dinner.
RE: Gordon Chang is a nutbar.
Can you elaborate?
this all started the day the gatherers told the hunters how the meat was going to be carved up, and the hunters let them...
China is roughly the size of continental USA.
They have a climate that can be very rich in food and
resources.
Their problem is that they are run by Democrats.
Oh I get it. But they have plenty of cash, land and resources already. They just manage it very poorly. So sure, go invade some other country that knows how to irrigate, has flood control measures, and can grow its own food. They can afford to lose 100 million people without noticing a difference.
Taiwan is one of the world’s major growers of rice, thanks to Japan’s development of high quality rice cultivation when Taiwan was a colony of Japan.
He’s pretty clearly on the payroll of the Falun Gong.
We should be shocked at this news. If communism is such a superior economic/social/political system, such a superior way of running your country, why would they ever have food shortages?
We oughtta starve the bastards because of the China virus and if we had a President worth a shat that's exactly what would be happening!
F.U. China & pResiden Xiden!
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