>Perhaps China feels self-sufficient enough now that they are willing to go the isolationism route? China is the world’s biggest importer of meat, dairy, soybe

>Perhaps China feels self-sufficient enough now that they are willing to go the isolationism route? China is the world’s biggest importer of meat, dairy, soybeans and corn. China is roughly the same size as the US in terms of land mass. Only 10% of Chinese soil is arable, for a population of 1.4B people. For comparison, around 17% of US land is arable, for a population of 332m. Isolationism also doesn't make sense in the context of the Belt and Road initiative, which exists to solve the exact problem of food shortages (and the need to dump steel, etc created by hyper-financialization) .