Posted on 01/09/2022 1:09:49 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
China has called on families and local governments to stock up on daily necessities as the country enforces stringent restrictions intended to curb a number of Covid outbreaks.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued the guidance in a statement on Monday. The Economic Daily, a Communist Party-backed newspaper, said that the directives were an effort by the government to prepare the public for Covid lockdowns in the prelude to winter.
China has enforced a “zero Covid” policy that includes widespread testing and lockdowns to stamp out any small resurgence of the coronavirus. The country is battling several Covid-19 outbreaks.
Pan Chenjun, an agriculture analyst at the Dutch lender Rabobank, said, “The directive to stock up on necessities is mainly about warning residents to prepare for any quarantine if Covid cases occur in their community.”
Extreme weather events in recent months, including flooding, have ruined crops and disrupted food chain supplies in parts of the country, Ms. Pan added.
As a consequence, the cost of certain foods, such as vegetables, has soared. Some vegetables, like spinach, have doubled in price, in some cases costing as much as meat does, according to one local report.
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China hoards over half the world's grain, pushing up global prices/Prepares for famine?
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Jan 9 is more than a little late to stock up for the winter... sounds like they are going to do the whole Olympics and then right into war in the spring time...Circa Berlin games...
It’s “Stock up, stock up, stock up!” until it becomes “We will punish hoarders severely as parasites on the people.”
Cannibalism , they’ll eat all the peoples they conquered
Related:
China is buying billions in US farmland:
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/china-is-buying-billions-in-us-farmland-and-lawmakers-are-scrambling-to-try-to-stop-them/
Not Hu, Xi!
Since when did the Chinese Gov give a crap about their people?
“The directive to stock up on necessities is mainly about warning residents to prepare for any quarantine if Covid cases occur in their community.”
Too funny, depending on what article you read, China is either running out food or has hoarded so much food that everyone else in the world is going to run out.
sort of similar to the news on covid, either nearly everyone dying is vaccinated.. or nearly everyone dying is unvaccinated, completely depending on what site you are at.
Demand in China has been driving up food prices for a while now. We’re paying the price for their hoarding. They don’t need our help.
High-tech greenhouse boom in China after food shortages during Covid-19 lockdowns (video half way down)
Xi made food security a priority issue beginning of last year.
His stated goal is to make China self-sufficient.
He’s moved from hoarding, to high-tech greenhouses, to GM seeds to feed the people.
Are they getting ready for war
They have also bought a lot of grain from the US
Since Omnicron seems to be pretty mild, I wonder if there is a new variant they are worried about.
“…China is either running out food or has hoarded so much food that everyone else in the world is going to run out.”
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…. except for the Mormons and Preppers.
Russia and other “former” Soviet states aligned with Putin are doing similar things.
Prepper ping
And then they will accuse people of hoarding.
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