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Food security is an issue on many global leaders’ plates. The climate phenomenon, El Niño, could impact food security worldwide by increasing the risk of floods, droughts, and heat waves. And the conflict raging over the Strait of Hormuz is impacting global supply chains. Grain exports have also been hit by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the US-Israeli war on Iran is stalling fertilizer shipments. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump’s trade war and tariffs also hit food prices. But Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are ahead of the game on food security. After all, a history of famines marked the collective conscious in the country. Mao Zedong’s "Great Leap Forward" caused what is thought to be the worst man-made famine in history. And in the "Cultural Revolution" Xi Jinping reportedly spent many hungry days in rural China. So food security is personal for China’s president and he has a focus on food policy. And he has a plan. Xi and the CCP have been pushing to grow staples like rice at home, increase China’s food reserves and also secure imports from abroad. Brazil has replaced the US as China’s biggest soybean supplier, as China expands in Latin America. And Xi’s infrastructure megaproject, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), serves as a "Food Silk Road" to help imports reach China without the risk of getting stuck in chokepoints.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 China’s food and farming hype
1:15 Why food is national security for Xi Jinping
1:48 China’s farmland problem and how it compares to the US
2:48 China’s dark history of famines
3:52 Why rice is key to Xi Jinping’s food supply plan
4:38 How China struggles with demographics, land and climate change
5:30 China’s boom: From rural poverty to superpower
6:41 China’s new appetite for pork
7:23 Donald Trump’s tariffs: How the US lost China as a customer
8:29 Soybeans from Brazil, not the US
9:55 China’s dilemma: The Malacca Strait and Taiwan
11:13 Why Beijing wants a railway across Latin America
12:36 How the war in Ukraine affected sunflower oil exports
13:21 China’s overland routes: The Middle Corridor through Kazakhstan
15:00 How China’s food security recipe is coming together
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