And our Deep State is aiding and abetting.
I will argue that the intent of the import ban is not starvation of People on the mainland.
The intent is purely economic, punishment to Taiwan food merchants that supply the various prepared foods and fresh vegetables to the mainland.
In point of fact, Taiwan is in reality China. There is free flow of people and trade between the mainland and the island. Paradoxically, Taiwan also exists as a self governing entity with it’s own trade all over the world, a military, and a free population.
In recent time, many Taiwan factories on the mainland have quietly closed and gone elsewhere. Elsewhere includes the USA. Those ties are severed.
Chairman Mao would absolutely approve.Using mass starvation as a weapon against opponents was one of his favorite hobbies.
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Mao would be aghast at the extremes the CCP is going today. They are out Maoing Mao.
The mass starvation during Mao’s time was not a “weapon against opponents”, but rather a miscalculation and an act of hubris and of face saving.
Like his campaign to to make steel - which turned out utterly worthless pot metal, it was all about showing Stain that Mao’s brand of communism was faithful to Marx and that China was a great Communist country and a productive ally.
So, Mao sold the entire grain crop to Russia to show how bountiful and productive China’s farms were. Leaving nothing for 38 million people to eat.
How would keeping food from being imported to China starve the Taiwanese
Imports, not exports.