Posted on 11/02/2021 8:29:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China has told families to stockpile food and other daily necessities after floods and coronavirus lockdowns sparked fears over shortages of essential goods.
Beijing's commerce ministry directive on Monday stirred some concern on domestic social media that it may have been triggered by heightened tensions with Taiwan, while some said people were rushing to stock up on rice, cooking oil and salt.
'As soon as this news came out, all the old people near me went crazy panic buying in the supermarket,' wrote one user on China's Twitter-like Weibo.
The government typically makes extra efforts to boost fresh vegetable and pork supplies before China's most important holiday, Lunar New Year, which in 2022 falls in early February.
But this year those efforts have become more urgent, as the shoring up of supplies becomes more challenging.
Floods linked to global warming have killed hundreds of people and destroyed homes, while the prices of vegetables have increased.
In early October, extreme weather including a tornado destroyed crops in Shandong - the country's biggest vegetable growing region. Henan province, known as China's bread basket, was also hit with torrential rain over the summer.
Meanwhile, as outbreaks of COVID-19 cases are stretching from the northwest to the northeast of the country, authorities have imposed tough new Covid lockdowns in response, leading to potential delays in deliveries.
In a sign that the government is becoming increasingly concerned over the food shortages, Chinese authorities have recently revived an anti-food waste campaign that first launched last year.
Local media has also recently published lists of recommended goods to store at home including biscuits and instant noodles, vitamins, radios and flashlights.
The public response forced state media on Tuesday to try to soothe fears and clarify the ministry's statement.
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Can’t happen to a nicer group of people.
I wonder why they would broadcast this, except they might hope to disrupt us.
As Woody said to Buzz “This is a perfect time to panic!”
Could have been worse.
They could have said, don’t hoard.
It’s not real unless they are welding people into apartment buildings.
Floods linked to global warming
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Far as I care to read.
From nuclear ICBM's and the world's 2nd largest economy...to that. Pretty amazing the dissimilarity within their CCP controlled perfect society.
One thing hovers over ChiCom expansion, especially toward Taiwan. The vulnerability of the Three Gorges Dam. Were it breached or destroyed the effects on China would be beyond catastrophic.
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Far as I care to read."
Yeah, cause floods have never happened on this planet prior to SUV's and American coal plants. 🤣
I mean they want us to panic, just like we did last year after they released videos of Chinese collapsing in the streets from covid, and trucks spraying fumigants in Chinese streets.
More likely filling up container for drinking water.
One word: Taiwan
Sam Kinison talks about world hunger in his first appearance in the Letterman show.
2 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNoJ2BzSRU
Stockkpile electricity too, they’re running short on that.
“I wonder why they would broadcast this, except they might hope to disrupt us.”
When they started the lockdowns early on, the global lockdowns followed not long after, if I remember correctly. Maybe our overlords are signaling it’s time to ramp up more chaos here. My tinfoil hat is really looking raggedy, but here we are, actually dealing with this kind of crap every day.
My wife gets texts and pictures from family and friends in China; and, all have noticed a lot of large transport aircraft assembling near the coast. There are also large numbers of boxcars in large rail yards near these landing facilities. They have also notices parades of military vehicles with troops headed into that region.
This is the land mass that is very close to Taiwan.
See my post #19.
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