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The World, and the 1.4B Chinese people, can’t afford for China to experience the petit mal seizure Russia is experiencing. Russia and Ukraine are small enough
by onecommentman 5y ago
The World, and the 1.4B Chinese people, can’t afford for China to experience the petit mal seizure Russia is experiencing. Russia and Ukraine are small enough in total population for the Rest of the World to keep their people from starvation through humanitarian interventions. Compared to China/India, they’re cute.
China has 10 times the population that would need to be fed under a similar scenario. The stewardship responsibilities of the Chinese government, from a planetary perspective, are ten times greater. Nobody would want a replay of the great Chinese famine (三年大饥荒), but it is unclear how the Rest of the World can address feeding (up to) 1.4B people on short notice. And nobody wants to find out.