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TexasTowelie

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4. The video concentrated on one of the greatest vulnerabilities of China
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 07:39 AM
Sep 9

which is providing a secure food supply because it would threaten the CCP seeing that the country is a net food importer which most of Africa is in the same situation. China acquires fertile land capable of providing bountiful harvests and there is enough redundancy in their providers that it can tolerate weather predicaments or other countries leveraging those supplies. Meanwhile, control of the food supply also provides China leverage on locally paying the food suppliers and more at a macroeconomic level by also influencing other industries such as food production equipment and transportation to influencing commodity prices at market.

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