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2020-08-11 China-Japan-Koreas

China Faces Food Shortage As Droughts, Flooding, And Pests Ruin Harvest

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-11 04:34|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
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#1 ...That ol' Mandate of Heaven is lookin' a little thin these days...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-08-11 05:22|| 2020-08-11 05:22|| Front Page Top

#2 They are so far ahead of us they are behind.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-11 05:22|| 2020-08-11 05:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Not a problem as long as food is available for sale & China has money.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-11 05:33|| 2020-08-11 05:33|| Front Page Top

#4 They bought debt intending to blackmail the world. It's not working out that way.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-11 06:08|| 2020-08-11 06:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes. The "predictors" said the US corn crop would suck this year. Not so much.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-11 06:10|| 2020-08-11 06:10|| Front Page Top

#6 I think a COVID surcharge would be in order.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-11 06:12|| 2020-08-11 06:12|| Front Page Top

#7 crop yield won’t be reduced

Didn't Stalin try this approach? How'd that work out? They eating the seed "rice" yet?

Have they tried standing on the shore line and ordering the tide to recede yet?

Posted by AlanC 2020-08-11 08:13|| 2020-08-11 08:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Not only that, food warehouses destroyed in Beirut and other places in the ME. Been drought as well with crop failures and Africa has had problems as well.

2021 will be the year of famine.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-08-11 10:13|| 2020-08-11 10:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Not a Lockdown Quarantine with starvation, it's a Staycation with a diet!

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-11 10:25|| 2020-08-11 10:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Better make good cable TV and internet free.

Posted by gorb 2020-08-11 13:16|| 2020-08-11 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 cable TV and internet free.

Can't do it. They are big political donors.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-11 15:08|| 2020-08-11 15:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Are they still useful?

Posted by gorb 2020-08-11 23:59|| 2020-08-11 23:59|| Front Page Top

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