China must be having incredible food-price inflation. They had a pig epidemic before coronavirus which was increasing the price of all meats. Now imported goods are piled up at ports, or not being shipped at all. Counties and provinces in quarantine cant conduct regular food distribution.
Planting season will be coming soon for the main grain producing areas north of the Yangtze River. How will they manage?
You are right. Not only food inflation, China also needs medical devices.
FROM THE ARTICLE:
Products subject to exemption on additional tariffs imposed include denatured ethanol and wheat, corn and sorghum. Some medical devices and metals including copper ore and concentrates, copper scrap and aluminum scrap are also subject to exemption.
Especially with a locust plague of biblical proportions on the way after wreaking havoc in Africa.
Locust plague reaches coronavirus-hit China after wreaking havoc across Africa
Chilling footage has shown thousands of insects swarming the skies at a border in China. They reportedly come from a plague that has devastated east Africa in recent weeks
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/locust-plague-reaches-coronavirus-hit-21513111