Posted on 01/01/2022 2:00:53 PM PST by bitt
US ag exports are 5 or 6 times more than US ag imports.
We import out of season or rare ag products because we’re rich enough to afford them, not because we would starve without them.
DALIAN, China/TOKYO -- Less than 20% of the world's population has managed to stockpile more than half of the globe's maize and other grains, leading to steep price increases across the planet and dropping more countries into famine.
That’s what Trump was about to do and you saw what they did to him.
Another article I read a day or so ago claimed China is hoarding grains preparing for a famine.
I read the same thing.
China is fuelling global inflation | Beijing is hoarding 50% of global food supplies
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4024230/posts
This thread and that thread do not reconcile with each other.
Sum Ting Wong.
This article is from 3/15/21.
I just bought 50# of shelled corn at TSC for $10.18.
Go ahead. Put your life savings and all you can borrow into ag commodity futures. It’s a sure thing! I dare you. What could go wrong?
That’s more true than you know.
Almost all the key ingredients in our pharmaceuticals are made in China. “But we also get a lot of it from India you may say.” Well India is dependent on China for the ingredients to make what they produce.
That heparin that is essential for major surgeries it’s key ingredient is made in China almost exclusively. China has taken over our pork industry which hampers our ability to make it, because pork intestines are key to its production.
We can’t even make saline IV bags! We’re so vulnerable.
Somewhere some foolish old Chinese General - one as stupid as ours running the Pentagon - is thinking ‘if only we kill Americans and take their land then we can feed our people...”
Too stupid to understand communism always produces food shortages... and if China ruled the whole world - people the world over would go hungry...
It’s the nature of the system.
Killing few hundred or even a thousand could be done pretty quietly in a place like China. But killing millions? Even the Chinese couldn’t keep that quiet. Not that it would really matter, far too many world leaders keep a set of knee pads handy in case China comes calling.
At some point, China will need to expand. They already have a foothold in parts of Africa, but there are area there that aren’t prime farmland. Any country where China has been buying assets is a potential target for expansion.
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