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.
OVERALL: 4.5/5
“At the core (of the conflict) lay the long-standing Sino-Tibetan animosities of over a thousand years. And, the persistent attempts of Tibet to assert its independence with the equally persistent efforts of successive Chinese administrations to enjoy the fruits of Mongol and Manchu imperialism since the mid-13
th century in Tibet, Sinkiang, and Mongolia
Prosenjit Das Gupta, A Conflict in Thin Air
My musings
This year 2020 has seen me reading a lot of books on China. The subjects might be different – from history to the pandemic to socio-cultural study, but at the core of these books lies the mighty Asian dragon – China. After re-living the initial coronavirus outbreak through the eyes of Fang Fang in Wuhan Diaries, and getting a socio-cultural peek into the psyche of the Chinese people in Paul Midler’s What’s Wrong with China, I got a lucky chance to read a thoroughly researched study into the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962 in Prosenjit Das Gupta’s A Co