The USA will soon be facing a food security issue, with farmers going out of business due to China migrating its agricultural needs to Brazil, Argentina, Russia and soon Indonesia. From a net exporter of agricultural products, the USA is now moving closer to being a net importer of agricultural produce, or food that it needs. Do not say that this is impossible. Myanmar was at one time called the rice bowl of Southeast Asia but is now a pale shadow as a rice producer dominated now by Thailand and Vietnam.
The desperation of USA farmers can be seen by them trying to enter the Chinese market by falsifying origins of its soya bean shipments (USA consumers do not need) as being from Brazil and Argentina. China is stamping this out in co-operation with Brazil and Argentina.
China, with one fifth of the world's population, is producing two thirds of the world's aquaculture, with fish farms located right in desert areas. And China is also becoming the world leader in production of 'caviar' from their breeding of the sturgeon fish. Call it just science fiction and impossible, but true. Now this is another area that China will soon be accused of having overcapacity in aquaculture. In other words, China should now be self-sufficient in seafood, with no fear of sabotage by countries trying to contaminate the waters around China. It will be karma if they poisoned themselves instead.
China is expanding its agriculture sector as well, with land reclaimed from deserts adding to its arable land for growing crops. USA citizens having access to Rednote are asking why groceries in China are so cheap and plentiful. The reality speaks for itself and no need to counter the propaganda that have been instilled in the minds of USA citizens for decades. Just a matter of opening up their minds to the truth, thanks to Tik Tok and Rednote.
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China is not leaving anything to chance. Countries that leave everything to chance will later be caught with pants down like the USA.
Offshoring frenzy by USA businesses to take advantage of cheap wages had been the norm with the opening up of China. When big companies like Apple decided to make iPhones in China, it was not China stealing USA jobs as Trump likes to imagine. Did China put a gun to Steven Job's head to force him to invest in China? It was USA business leader's short-term greed that they did so, while the USA Government and citizens want to enjoy the best of both worlds - cheaper products, exporting pollution to China for demonization and just continue to print toilet papers in exchange. Now everything wrong with the USA is blamed on China.
Suffice to say, manufacturing in China today is so well entrenched in automation and AI, that human participation has been largely reduced. Manufacturing jobs in China are no more the mass human intensive and low wages type of sweatshop jobs that Trump wants to lure back to the USA. There is much talk about joblessness in China as a result of this development but look deeper into it and you will realize why China still managed to remain un-collapsible.
There is one area that most Western onlookers fail to see, which is the undeclared sector of China's economy that have mushroomed across all the cities of China that is providing employment and survival opportunities to mitigate the effect of automation. If you care to watch some of the videos made by foreign vloggers travelling across China, documenting these small businesses found along streets and alleys, catering mostly to foreigners and locals too, these are the small entrepreneurs doing and making undeclared income outside the official GDP statistics of China. This has not been closely discussed but will make a big difference if taken into the official calculation of China's GDP. That is why China is not going to collapse just because of the trade war or tariffs.
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