The US-Israeli war on Iran has unleashed a massive global food crisis. China is prepared, because its state-owned enterprises oversee the largest grain reserves in human history. This is how they work
"...These policies require an immense amount of planning, which market logic would simply not find tolerable..."
This here is the core of the issue. The Euro-colonial countres are ideologically wedded to a system that does not care about people or stability, and intrinsically does not value any kind of mechanisms to preserve stability and ensuring people have the basics of life. Such things, in the capitalist systems, are expenses, not investments.
In fact their systems are most profitable for the rich when there is volatility and instability. That is why their rich doubled their wealth during COVID19 and are currently getting massively richer from years of needless wars in Ukraine, and the middle east.
So no they dont plan - their oligarchy do not want to plan. Planning would actually benefit the masses, instead of just them alone.
The Economist piece from October 2025 is the real buried lead here. They looked at China buying soybeans at a "hefty premium" and called it wasteful because crude was expected to drop $10-20.
That's textbook expected-value thinking applied to a tail-risk problem. Strategic reserves aren't meant to be NPV-positive against the base case. They're a put option against the worst case. Calling them wasteful because the base case looks benign is like cancelling your home insurance because your house didn't burn down last year.
The fact that a publication staffed by very smart people consistently mispriced this tells you something about how deeply market-logic framing can blind you to scenarios you've decided are unlikely.
Excellent report on China's ability to actually care for its' people. To the Damn point: China has brought over 700 million of its citizens out of abject poverty! Therefore, ask yourself, what has the American government done for its people? God damn little as I, a working class, up bringing, person that was taught by his parents to be proud of, can see in our DEMOCRAY here in The United States of America: God Bless Us All, and all that rot!
China is not prepared, no one is, for the imminent impact that rising co2 and loss of sequestration will have on humanity's ability to grow the food that we're adapted to.
Jo Waller, you are very correct in your comment, but here's what you are missing: A must read on this subject of "humanity's ability to grow food...." Julian Cribbs' 'FOOD or War' from the cover of the book: 'Anyone with an interest in either the human future or in food should read this clear, authoritative, scary book.' Paul R. Ehrlich
exvellent note, this shown us how in SOCIALISM, China itsmore than capable to PLANNING a lot kd so diversr issues to ensure them population, leave the socialist i ternal market ckntrol crisis moments, serving as first jntetest population have the food them need and parallel leave the market flow in the best way.
Magnific level of capacity and Programming/Solving shown by the Cominist Party of China ahead Govern. Unthincable wrst even can face this kind of problematics to provide them populations, simply 'em leave them private Corporates rise orices without care on population.
You sound less like an actual writer and more like a communist sympathizer...perhaps less about the Chinese propaganda and more about what it's like to live under a regime that has such marvelous polices from your seeming prospective.
It's hilarious that someone probably living in the country that has a mafia for a government, and masked lunatic paramiltary forces running around the streets kidnapping and even killing people.....says that OTHER countries are living under a "regime".
LOL Typical juvenile retort from an indoctrinated dummy. "I have no argument about the content. So, I'm just gonna call it Chinese propaganda by a communist sympathizer."
Christopher Luehe, and to the point, you are a fool and extremely uninformed person who have obviously not done his homework on China, the China of today, which by the way is decades ahead of the Good Ole USofA in every facet of life. You won't find homeless people in China, but hey, in the city I live in (Southern California, the world's 7th largest economy) you can't go anywhere and not see the hopelessness of survival here in AMERICA! Chris, get real, and get educated!
"...These policies require an immense amount of planning, which market logic would simply not find tolerable..."
This here is the core of the issue. The Euro-colonial countres are ideologically wedded to a system that does not care about people or stability, and intrinsically does not value any kind of mechanisms to preserve stability and ensuring people have the basics of life. Such things, in the capitalist systems, are expenses, not investments.
In fact their systems are most profitable for the rich when there is volatility and instability. That is why their rich doubled their wealth during COVID19 and are currently getting massively richer from years of needless wars in Ukraine, and the middle east.
So no they dont plan - their oligarchy do not want to plan. Planning would actually benefit the masses, instead of just them alone.
The Economist piece from October 2025 is the real buried lead here. They looked at China buying soybeans at a "hefty premium" and called it wasteful because crude was expected to drop $10-20.
That's textbook expected-value thinking applied to a tail-risk problem. Strategic reserves aren't meant to be NPV-positive against the base case. They're a put option against the worst case. Calling them wasteful because the base case looks benign is like cancelling your home insurance because your house didn't burn down last year.
The fact that a publication staffed by very smart people consistently mispriced this tells you something about how deeply market-logic framing can blind you to scenarios you've decided are unlikely.
Excellent report on China's ability to actually care for its' people. To the Damn point: China has brought over 700 million of its citizens out of abject poverty! Therefore, ask yourself, what has the American government done for its people? God damn little as I, a working class, up bringing, person that was taught by his parents to be proud of, can see in our DEMOCRAY here in The United States of America: God Bless Us All, and all that rot!
China is not prepared, no one is, for the imminent impact that rising co2 and loss of sequestration will have on humanity's ability to grow the food that we're adapted to.
Jo Waller, you are very correct in your comment, but here's what you are missing: A must read on this subject of "humanity's ability to grow food...." Julian Cribbs' 'FOOD or War' from the cover of the book: 'Anyone with an interest in either the human future or in food should read this clear, authoritative, scary book.' Paul R. Ehrlich
Western capitalists love counting money for China while their governments starve people around the world.
exvellent note, this shown us how in SOCIALISM, China itsmore than capable to PLANNING a lot kd so diversr issues to ensure them population, leave the socialist i ternal market ckntrol crisis moments, serving as first jntetest population have the food them need and parallel leave the market flow in the best way.
Magnific level of capacity and Programming/Solving shown by the Cominist Party of China ahead Govern. Unthincable wrst even can face this kind of problematics to provide them populations, simply 'em leave them private Corporates rise orices without care on population.
Amazing China work.
You sound less like an actual writer and more like a communist sympathizer...perhaps less about the Chinese propaganda and more about what it's like to live under a regime that has such marvelous polices from your seeming prospective.
It's hilarious that someone probably living in the country that has a mafia for a government, and masked lunatic paramiltary forces running around the streets kidnapping and even killing people.....says that OTHER countries are living under a "regime".
Bruh, Ben does live in China lmao. Go on XHS and free yourself from all the goofy American anti-China propaganda.
LOL Typical juvenile retort from an indoctrinated dummy. "I have no argument about the content. So, I'm just gonna call it Chinese propaganda by a communist sympathizer."
Appreciating a country taking efforts to make sure their population doesn’t go hungry is being a “communist sympathizer”.
Reevaluate your comment and reflect on where your values lie.
Christopher Luehe, and to the point, you are a fool and extremely uninformed person who have obviously not done his homework on China, the China of today, which by the way is decades ahead of the Good Ole USofA in every facet of life. You won't find homeless people in China, but hey, in the city I live in (Southern California, the world's 7th largest economy) you can't go anywhere and not see the hopelessness of survival here in AMERICA! Chris, get real, and get educated!