Can China Feed Itself?

Can China feed itself? Not really, as of now. And certainly not if they go to war.

We hear endless what a titan, what a colossus, Red China is. And President Trump is trying to slow down their greedy, godless, and already brutal march to world domination. Those deeply vested in China oppose Trump, obviously. Victor Davis Hanson has a good article on China and the President here.

But for what it is worth, as a disciple of Sun Tzu (and I eat popcorn with chopticks and practice Chinese calligraphy when I have the time, which is rare), I maintain that in a street fight, especially if your opponent is a huge, beefed up colusses, it is easy to take him down if you go for a knee. You don't have to take out both knees. One cracked knee will put him on the floor and keep him there. Marquis of Queensbury it isn't, but such is life.

What I mean is, should China – God forbid – ever actually try to go to war with its Asian neighbors, or the U.S., it has a knee in danger, indeed. Its agriculture.

Can Communist China feed itself? And if they can't feed themselves, why not? The Answer: Because they have a huge population much larger than their share of the world's arable land. And they have a top-down, Communist economic system. That's the basic idea. Of course, technology and genetics can help with both (though the Communism will hamper that), but any sort of war or aggressive behavior on their part, and those aids go out the window.

Had the time to do a bit of searching for this. According to this article in Nature: the Chinese hope to become self-sufficient in grain, but right now they import 95 million tonnes (metric) and that's 17 percent of their "domestic production". It's actually an interesting article, especially if one reads between the lines. 

They say the Chinese claim to store for emergency (like what, war?) most of what they import (but can we really be sure of that? We know how they lie like rugs about their other production stats). As noted, they have 7-8 percent of the worlds agricultural land, but feed 22 percent of its population. Clearly, any national crisis, like a sustained war effort, would challenge such a situation, putting it under extreme stress.

Apparently, north China produces 60 percent of their grain, but that's due to extensive irrigation. According to reports, water tables are lowering and droughts occur. But hahaha, the article also argues that "Global Warming" (yeah, right) will provide them with both more water and more arable land. Since we know Global Warming is a scam, all of that can be discounted.

Then there's this Bloomberg article: 

This one is ridiculously upbeat about how China will get more countries to grow food for it and how it will use technology to feed itself – but for our purposes, the whole point is that they WON'T get food from other countries if they go to war, A, and B, an agriculture that is heavily based on technology can go bust if the power grids are taken down, or the infrastructure damaged in other ways. (Damage to infrastructure often happens in war, 'tis said.)

All very, very shaky.

And thanks to an acquaintance, here's an air quality map of China. Phew! How do they breathe???

Remember, Communist China produces pollution like the Communist regimes did in Central Europe and Russia. The Chicoms have grievously polluted their environment. My acquaintance also wrote, "A recent World Bank study found pollution in China was caused approximately 750,000 preventable deaths a year and almost five hundred million Chinese citizens have no access safe drinking water. Did you get that? Forty percent of the country has no safe drinking water."

So therefore, it seems to me, that China has more problems than they care to admit, and any crazy war of imperial conquest would collapse them from within. 

AnP