Posted on 04/11/2024 11:18:55 AM PDT by Vendome
China has increased its reliance on food imports over the past two decades, prompting concerns among officials who worry that disruptions to food supply chains could trigger domestic unrest. In particular, this reliance has heightened China’s sensitivity to food supply disruptions caused by geopolitical tensions, such as Russia’s war in Ukraine.
With less than 10 percent of the planet’s arable land, China produces one-fourth of the world’s grain and feeds one-fifth of the world’s population. Data from the country’s National Bureau of Statistics showed that in 2022, China’s grain output reached a record high of 686.53 million tons [page in Chinese] despite delayed plantings, extreme weather, and COVID-19 disruptions. China ranks first globally in producing cereals (such as corn, wheat, and rice), fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs, and fishery products.
Despite its domestic production, China has been a net importer [DOC] of agricultural products since 2004. Today, it imports more of these products—including soybeans, corn, wheat, rice, and dairy products—than any other country. Between 2000 and 2020, the country’s food self-sufficiency ratio decreased from 93.6 percent to 65.8 percent. Changing diet patterns have also driven up China’s imports of edible oils, sugar, meat, and processed foods. In 2021, the country’s edible oil import-dependency ratio reached nearly 70 percent [article in Chinese], almost as high as its crude oil import dependence.
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Fortunately, they have a population crash coming in a decade or so.
Yep
Their workforce participation drops almost immediately beginning in 2030
Essentially their working age population will age out and be replaced by countries south of our border...
And they have a history of letting their people starve…so it’s not that much of a problem.
That said, when they have their food supply chain so easily cut off…i doubt they are going to engage in much mischief. And note, their oil supply is much more precarious than their food channels. They are a few years from getting those lines upgraded into Russia.
Also keep in mind that the Climate Cult wants to reduce the amount of farm land.
What IS A REAL PROBLEM — China (and India) produce 80-85% of OUR PHARMACEUTICALS !
AND... no wonder China’s buying up so much farmland in America.
Even more so than in the West - China’s one-child princelings and Gen-Z internet generation do not want to follow in the footsteps of their peasant parents on the farm.
China will quickly do what it can to automate farm production, but they will have a farm-worker crisis even faster than a general population crisis.
It’s been since the “Great Leap Forward” that China has had a famine. That’s probably the longest stretch China’s ever gone between famines.
Also keep in mind that the Climate Cult wants to reduce the amount of farm land.
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These things are all very much related.
What, they’re too good to eat bugs?
Trump was 100% right when he said that China needs us more than we need them.
They can buy Siberia. Make them an offer they....
Suggest you do an image search for Siberia Farmland.
It’s grows a lot of food, unlike the fast expanse around Nome, Alaska.
Make China 1959 again hungry and broke the should have never been allows into the free trade agreement.
That’s hilarious
Gee, maybe that’s why they’re buying up swathes of farmland in the US....
One wonders if the hundreds of thousands of military aged Chi-coms crossing our Southern border might have anything to do with providing China with a new source of food stuffs, food stuffs grown in the USA.
They can always grow their veggies in the States — they own enough land here and, paying Biden enough money, they can get all they want. They can come to Texas to hunt wild hogs for their pork.
So, they are reliant upon imported food. They are also 80% reliant upon imported oil, which can be blocked easily at any one of several different choke points along the way from where it is pumped until it gets to China.
Maybe the Chinese should think twice before they start a war in Taiwan.
From the article:
In 2021, the country’s edible oil import-dependency ratio reached nearly 70 percent [article in Chinese], almost as high as its crude oil import dependence.
Same with Steel
https://www.statista.com/topics/5695/steel-industry-in-china/#topicOverview
Iron ore
The Chinese steel industry is not only dependent on the global market for sales, but also on the supply of raw materials, especially iron ore. Although China domestically mines large quantities of iron ore and possesses the fourth largest reserves of iron ore in the world, its iron ore is of low quality and contains only relatively low quantities of iron. Therefore, China is heavily reliant on the global iron ore supply, being by way the largest importer of iron ore worldwide. Imports are coming mainly from Australia and Brazil, these two countries together making up more than 80 percent of total iron ore imports to China.
FAFO
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