Posted on 01/01/2022 2:00:53 PM PST by bitt
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.
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money quote:
...”Xi cannot be happy that China is increasingly dependent on a nation he has identified as his enemy, the United States, to feed its 1.4 billion people. There are, consequently, bound to be geopolitical tremors when a China led by an insecure and militant regime decides it needs to obtain self-sufficiency in food.”
“effectively acknowledging it cannot feed the Chinese people.”
Effectively stockpiles for hard times....
When Commies can’t feed their own people, isn’t that when they usually kill millions of their own people?
If only we had a sensible administration who would leverage the importance of our country for staving off a future war we all know is coming.
“When Commies can’t feed their own people, isn’t that when they usually kill millions of their own people?”
Oh look, China has >10% more men than women, leaving a millions of men who have no marital prospects.
Oh look, China is taking a remarkable interest in retaking Taiwan, a process that will require millions of conscripts for a human-wave assault across 30 miles of ocean.
With 1.4 billion people I’m sure the ChiComs could kill a few dozen million people, and still be able to takeover Taiwan.
Starve them.
Good eatin’ in the neighborhood.
Every time.
I think China is a surprisingly delicate country. I bet we could beat them in a war. But I also bet that we wouldn’t. Because beating them in a war would be mean, and we don’t want to be mean. So we’d let them win. To show them what nice guys we are.
We could make China collapse if we just refused to buy anything “Made in China.” By “We” I mean all of the U.S. and the rest of the world. Unfortunately, everything seems to be “Made in China” today, so it’s hard to not buy from them.
China can feed itself, if by “feed itself” we mean provide enough calories and green stuff for vitamins. The issue for China is providing the high value meat and dairy products to which the Chinese people have become accustomed. The first thing people do when they become more prosperous is eat better. They move from meat on special occasions to meat once a week to meat two, three or four times a week. Reverting to a rice/vegetable/fish diet with some eggs thrown in would be explosive. People will accept this sort of thing in the event of a war. Absent a shooting war, the regime needs a functional substitute. Foreign devils, anyone?
A huge change in the last several decades is that a growing majority of the Chinese people is now urban. Peasants can often supplement their diets. Peasants are also dispersed and isolated in the countryside where it is not as easy to cause trouble for the regime. Large, angry urban mobs are more difficult to control.
China will simply resprt to genocide of its people. It will feed members of the CCP and members of the Armed Forces. Anyone else will be expendable.
Let Red China starve and the Red Chinese conquest of the world will begin.
We need to starve them until the CCP falls.
And we need to feed the ordinary people of China excluding the CPP members and the Armed Forces.
Oh look, China has >10% more men than women, leaving a millions of men who have no marital prospects.
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Oh look, Chinese women over 30 are called “left over women” and are unmarriageable.
Oh look, Chinese men have to buy property in order to get married - cheapest apartment to buy begins around US$1.5 million.
Oh look, Chinese women have to come up with a dowry commensurate with the man’s station or be rejected by the man’s family.
Oh look, Chinese men and women just love Western memes that have only a shred of truth in them.
In fact, most large economies “can not feed themselves.” while the USA is a large exporter of grains, and beef, we are simultaneously a large importer of most fruits and vegetables. Japan, Korea, Germany are certainly not “self-sufficient” in many types of food.
China is perhaps viewed differently because it is so large, But also, because of a memory of starvation as well as a mercantalist trade policy - both due to communist policies.
China will be fine. Bill Gates is buying up massive acreage of U.S. farmland and he’ll be about to provide everything Xi wants for decades to come.
Listening to the China experts on War Room, the CCP actually believes that we’re a subsidiary of China now. If true, our land is their land in their eyes.
I read that Gates has become the largest single owner of farmland in America now. Don’t know if it’s true.
“Clean your plate, there are children starving in China.”
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