“China has been a very active buyer of grain and it is stockpiling grain… at a time when hundreds of millions of people are entering the catastrophic phase of food insecurity,” said James O’Brien, head of the US State Department’s Office of Sanctions Coordination. O’Brien said 40% of the first grain shipments out of Ukraine in April went to China. “It would have been much better to see that grain going to Egypt, in the Horn of Africa and other places.”