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China Has Never Canceled This Many Shipments of US Wheat
(www.bloomberg.com)
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Communism no food (needing to be imported)
To be fair, agriculture in China is a lot more challenging than say, the US and Russia because of their mountainous terrains that made automation difficult. To sustain a 1.4bn population, importing food is almost inevitable.
However, that doesn’t excuse the fact that in the 1990s and especially since joining the WTO in 2001, China has allowed foreign ag giants to enter and flooded the agricultural sector with patented GMO seeds that destroyed the domestic competitors (for example, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready line that entered Brazil and Argentina in 1996, and then into China in the late 1990s). The soybean crisis was one of the greatest humiliation that China suffered in the hands of American imperialism in the 2000s, and it played a major role in robbing China of their own food security for the past two decades.
yeah if you read similar reports china is also importing even more soy than before
but it seems they are shifting to get more from brazil and argentina
can confirm they've been buying a lot from brazil for at least a decade, i am pretty sure we are like the biggest producer in the world right now, but i have the suspicion that majority of the soy that stays in brazil is used for like feed farm animals and making biodiesel