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Russian troops are massing on the Ukraine border, Chinese vessels are swarming Whitsun Reef of the Philippines in the South China Sea, and China s air force is flying almost daily through Taiwan s air-defense identification zone. Chinese troops for almost a year have been dug in deep in Indian-controlled Ladakh in the Himalayas. Two large aggressors are threatening to break apart neighbors and absorb them.
American attempts to de-escalate flashpoints are seen in Russian and Chinese circles as failures of resolve.
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Global Times, an unofficial Communist Party tabloid used by Beijing to signal new policies, on April 12 posted a video of Hu Xijin, its editor-in-chief, warning that Beijing would overfly Taiwan in other words, fly into Taiwan s sovereign airspace to declare sovereignty.
Watch Out: China Cannot Feed Itself | Opinion On 3/15/21 at 7:30 AM EDT
Or, to put this another way, Beijing is effectively acknowledging it cannot feed the Chinese people.
China s leader, Xi Jinping, recently made such an admission. Last August, he announced what became known as the clean your plate campaign to end what he called a shocking and distressing waste of food. Just about everyone saw this effort, to get the Chinese people to eat less, as a warning of food shortages to come.
Chinese officials will not formally admit China is becoming increasingly dependent on foreign food that would be political dynamite but it is now apparent that the country needs to buy foodstuffs from abroad.