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The whole world is in for a seismic shift, not just HK. Xi used the word "struggle (斗争)" 58 times in his speech yesterday at the Central Party School. http://
by AFascistWorld 7y ago
The whole world is in for a seismic shift, not just HK.
Xi used the word "struggle (斗争)" 58 times in his speech yesterday at the Central Party School.
http://xinhuanet.com/politics/2019-09/03/c_1124956081.htm http://xinhuanet.com/politics/2019-09/03/c_1124956081.htm
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Another important thing is the collapse of Chinese pork industry due to African swine fever, unlike other monoculture diseases such as mad cow and banana Panama disease, it has no cure and prevention, it's doomed in the foreseeable future.
It hit China particularly hard because pork is their cheapest(by a large margin) and main red meat, compounding it is that China can't deign to import cheap NA feed crops and pork coz America is the enemy now, price is now around 3 dollars per 500g, pricier than imported Australian beef (Chinese beef is usually twice the price of pork), and is expected to hike even more during holiday season and Chinese new year, maintain a high level after that.
Chinese people don't care about politics, but pork prices will push basically everything more expensive and force them to care, and that's dangerous for the party.
- steve19 7y agoA few months ago China banned Canadian pork on the grounds of forged export certificates (without specifying which exporter). It was seen in Canada as more retaliation over the arrest of the Huawei exec. Now they are looking pretty silly with vastly less pork being produced domestically.
- AFascistWorld 7y agoWell, the party has stated loud and clear that China will fight America (and the evil West) no matter what, at all costs and to the very end.
- blfr 7y agoSoviet communists also used to say this.
- imglorp 7y agoInteresting yes. There's a great Freakonomics about the history of supermarkets which turns out to have been a major force in the cold war. USDA pushed and supported cheap mass production and even transportation, making what we now expect in a big, well stocked market with low prices and wide selection. We set up modern demo markets in the Ukraine which probably hit home, literally, because the Soviet markets were bare and droll. This tech was even studied by the Soviets but they couldn't reproduce it. It seems hitting the stomachs was just as important as hitting the minds and the missiles. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/farms-race/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/farms-race/
- vkou 7y agoAmericans say this all the time, too. Remember McCain, and his promise of one hundred years of war in Iraq?
- RosanaAnaDana 7y agoSeems like that ones coming through on schedule.
- annika9 7y agoWell as work in meat industry obviously everyone in this business know which Canadian plant involved. Canada pork exporters not 100% innocents and also everyone knows since June the Canadian pork just temporary banned.
- artsyca 7y agoThe shift has already happened and pork prices are politics bro -- if we're to reduce the argument back to roman days, pane et circenses rules the day
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIs this how the Third World War starts?
- _iyig 7y agoOver pork? Hope not. Bidding war for Brazilian pork exports, perhaps.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoWhen I wrote my reply the comment I replied to only contained its first three lines. There was nothing about pork in it then. It was edited since then.
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- AFascistWorld 7y agoPork consumption 2016 in metric tons: China 54,070,000 America 9,452,000 Brazil 2,811,000 It's estimated that the supply gap will be 20,000,000 tons in 2020, I don't think Brazil can supply that even if they ditch pork. The whole planet can't supply it. https://www.statista.com/statistics/237619/export-of-pork-in-2008/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/237619/export-of-pork-in...
- nroets 7y agoI was in China for 3 months this year. Both rural and urban areas. People said "You will never be hungry in China" and they are right. They are enough substitutes for pork, many of them just as delicious.
- anthony_doan 7y agoI'm not entirely sure your statement can offset the fact that many Chinese dishes use pork. While they won't get hungry there should be some sort of anger and resentment for having to change their diet.
- baybal2 7y agoI like to spend time "deciphering" the extremely carefully worded, and innuendo ridden press releases of the central government. Much of a riddle, add to that I am not a native speaker. Internal edicts of the government leak all the time, but they also not far from official PR. Officials themselves have to decipher party's esoteric slang.
- justicezyx 7y ago斗争 means conflicts, not struggle.