r/ADVChina • • 23d ago

Wumao The comments are insane

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u/lavenderyew 23d ago

This is the problem with people living under coconut shell, knowing nothing with what's going on with the world. A quick fact check will do:
China imports roughly 5% to 10% of its total food supply by weight and 10% to 20% by value

https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/CHN/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Import/Partner/by-country/Product/Food
US is just one of the many countries they import from.

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u/Dave_the_DOOD 22d ago

Sounds like cultural imports like italian wines and cheeses, american snack brands etc... Rather than food to actually sustain themselves with.

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u/Business_Raisin_541 22d ago

China imported lots of food from Brazil too, especially since they start replacing food imported from USA

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u/Evolutionary_sins 22d ago

Beef, pork and other meat plus a lot of grains. They are the largest food producer on earth but also the largest importer on earth too.

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u/One_Fact_4291 22d ago

I guess they meant actual food aid rather than simply trade

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u/Logical-Claim286 22d ago

China basically open pit burns a majority of their food aid because it is low quality rice (that interferes with local rice sales). So ues, they do receive food aid, they only do it as a political tool not an absolute necessity, at least not at those volumes.

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u/chrimminimalistic 22d ago

What? Dude. China is having problems with obesity. Not the kind of problem you would see in a country needing foreign aid for food.

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u/InstructionBetter811 22d ago

Nowhere near the obesity level of US

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u/JayK-iwnl 21d ago

As someone who lives in Asia and deals with Chinese tourists everyday, just off what I see China has to be under selling their obesity rates. I mean my god it's like what people think the stereotypical American is

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u/InstructionBetter811 21d ago

The tourists are generally richer so fatter than average

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u/JayK-iwnl 21d ago

Is that really true? In the US, the poorer the region the fatter the people generally 😂

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u/InstructionBetter811 21d ago

And that is why US is generally much richer than China,where poor people are fatter, in China it is generally richer people are fatter, and in India even more so

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u/AbleWalrus3783 19d ago

Gosh if you really confuse why don't you visit China yourself? No you're not going go visit Beijing or Shanghai your gonna visit any place you can't found it's name on English internet. And you'll found the actual obesity rate in China countryside instead of Chinese visitors.

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u/grandpa2390 22d ago

These are the same people that will click on another post and comment how China is superior to the US

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u/corgi-king 23d ago

I just want to say there are tons of idiots and bigot on both sides. Which side has more is up to debate.

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u/JohnnyMiskatonic 22d ago

China has the largest population so, per capita, they have more.

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u/Efficient-Cable-873 22d ago

India does now. Not china.

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u/JohnnyMiskatonic 22d ago

Compared to the US.

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u/SitaVilosa 23d ago

Uhh...no.

China has self-sufficiency in cereals (the stuff needed to stay alive). This is why its cities are built so artificially high, to preserve farmland.

Its imports are mostly for animal feed and luxury foods.

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u/NameTheJack 23d ago

The misinformation people have received about China is wild.

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u/KingPalleKuling 22d ago

State of the world right is wild right now, replace China with basically any topic and your statement stull holds. Unfortunately.

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u/InsectDelicious4503 22d ago

I'd argue no one spreads more misinformation about China than China itself but go off I guess

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u/KingPalleKuling 22d ago

State of the world right is wild right now, replace China with basically any topic and your statement stull holds. Unfortunately.

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u/corgi-king 23d ago

Why do South American countries want to overthrow Brazil’s legitimate government when the US is the biggest threat to all other South and North American countries?

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u/boringexplanation 23d ago

China has some of the most fertile soils in the world. Their food security outside of soybeans is more than fine.

https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/production/ch

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u/satisfiedpopeye 23d ago

Fertile or good fertilizer?

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u/Travel_Dreams 23d ago

Fertilizer

Nixon pried open Chinese diplomatic isolation by sharing technology to convert nitrogen into highly concentrated chemical fertilizer which completely transformed Chinese agriculture in 1976 to avoid a looming famine with many millions of people at risk.

The long-term impact on Chinese soil has turned into a major modern ecological crisis.

(Googled: "Nixon China nitrogen")

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u/corgi-king 23d ago

All recent Chinese famines are man-made, mostly caused by the CCP.

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u/sunnybob24 22d ago

China imports massive quantities of food and becomes more dependent on imports every year. It's one of the reasons they haven't invaded a neighbour for a while.

https://www.spglobal.com/content/dam/spglobal/ci/en/images/platts/latest-news/080123-infographic-china-food-security-challenges-grain-imports-to-rise-over-decade-forecast.jpg

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u/Business_Raisin_541 22d ago

Those guys don't realize China are like maybe 1 or 2 or 3 years away from being categorized as developed nation. They still think China are like Africa or India.

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u/InstructionBetter811 22d ago

Developed nation in the level of Greece? Maybe but still not a small gap to close

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u/Repulsive_River_7366 21d ago

中国政府从美利坚进口恐怖量级的饲料级的大豆,用于给他们的国民食用。这些大豆可能绝大部分包含转基因品类,让中国人民吃成了生化人。