Chicoms lack self sufficiency in food

 Washington Examiner:

Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping thinks the United States and its allies could deprive China of food in a crisis, an assessment underpinning a frank call for self-sufficiency.

Chinese Communist officials have struggled to feed the country for decades, particularly during Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, which caused a famine that killed an estimated 30 million people from 1959 to 1961. Xi alluded to “the time of no grain” but cast the memory as motivation to fortify national security against external threats.

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“You have a very aggressive, self-confident leader, now going into a third term, declaring this a national security issue,” observed Evan Ellis, an expert on China’s engagement with Latin America at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. “The significance is really the tone and a claim that Xi is making, rather than a change in policy.”

Such rhetoric tends to heighten the perceived risk of an impending conflict, as evidenced by the response to a message from China’s Commerce Ministry that advised families to stockpile a certain amount of daily necessities to meet the needs of daily life and emergencies last month.

“This sparked heated discussion online, with some users even speculating the call to stockpile food was related to the possible outbreak of war with Taiwan,” the South China Morning Post noted .

To Xi’s point, an overwhelming percentage of Chinese food imports originates in the U.S. or from close U.S. allies. China’s top five food suppliers in 2017 were Brazil, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, according to an analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Put another way, four of China’s top five food suppliers are members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network, and the other, Brazil, elected an anti-communist president in 2018 who elevated U.S.-Brazil relations to the level of a major non-NATO ally in 2019.

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Communists have a history of famine from Stalin and Ukraine to Mao's "Great leap backward."  What this demonstrates is that aggression against Taiwan has significant downsides for the communist regime.  It would also have a downside for the US because much of the medications used in this country come from China.  The globalist have created a predicament for everyone.

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