I dunno Ronin, maybe Japan can afford to keep it’s cutesy-poo rural farmers as human theme-park exhibits in a Colonial Williamsburg writ large but it’s total dreaming to think a mountainous, densely-populated urban nation can actually feed itself with all home-grown foodstuffs.
I wouldn’t know how to research that, however.
CHINA'S AFRICA: Thousands of Chinese farmers bring their skills to Africa, writes Clifford Coonan in Baoding, Hebei Province
LIU JIANJUN, one of China's most prominent private sector ambassadors in the ever-closer relationship between this country and Africa, is wearing a brightly coloured African tunic, the tall hat of a tribal leader, a string of red beads around his neck and carrying a stick with a secret knife in the handle.
Beside the middle-aged Chinese man sits a portrait of chairman Mao Zedong.
"The African people yell 'Mao Zedong is alright' and they are very warm-hearted when I'm there. They all know how to dance, and I am deeply touched by their generosity," said Liu.
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