Posted on 06/20/2021 10:51:52 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
China's decisions around its agricultural policy are becoming increasingly murky with news of arrests, secrecy, and claims of cover-ups.
Key points: A Chinese grains analyst has reportedly been jailed and another is said to be under house arrest Australian grains analysts say China is suppressing information about grain shortages to keep world prices down China is buying up near-record amounts of grain while reporting a bumper crop of its own Independent analysts who report on China's grains industry have reportedly been arrested and their online businesses shut down to stop them from telling the truth about the country's below-average crop.
Chinese officials are cracking down on independent information about grain pricing.
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.abc.net.au ...
We’re grain country....no doubt. I remember the wheat deal with Russia in the 1980s.
Prepper ping
This is great leverage for the US and Australia.
The ability and opportunity for payback.
The Chicoms have the money but does that mean they’ll put Taiwan on the back burner? I think not.
Russia sells more wheat than any country in the world.
Remember when Soviet leaders would disappear from photos?
Ah, the good old days.
There...fixed.
They want our farmland, and Joseph Stolen will give it to them.
Might accelerate to distract.
Snort chuckle... How about President Pudding Cup?
Just watch what China is buying up and see where the Poop is going to hit the fan next.
These bastards are genetically driven to lie.
Last year’s flooding damaged huge swaths of agricultural land. We are probably seeing the effects of that.
Either way, Lil Joey has trouble peeling off the tin foil lid on the plastic cup.
Not China it’s the Chinese Communist Party and Biden and the Democrats love these commies
True, but we sold them feed grain, and the Soviets paid top dollar for it. Feed grain is not suitable for human consumption here, having too many rat turds per liter of volume, but perfectly wholesome for the proletariat of the USSR.
We sold them corn...aka....feed grain.
Maybe they will give in and buy Arkansas Rice - Up until now, the Chinese will only buy rice grown in California.
The Relatives still Rice Farming in Arkansas have a huge surplus to sell.
Only by a gnat's eyelash did they exceed the USA in 2019.
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