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> China gets 36% of its food source from this region. Doubtful on that one.
by AlbertCory 3y ago
> China gets 36% of its food source from this region.
Doubtful on that one.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoChina grows about 2/3rds of its own food. It definitely doesn't get 100% of the rest from South America.
- philipov 3y agoWhy do you doubt that? China's population is so large, even their ample farming capacity isn't enough to support it on its own. To whom do you think they turn to fill the deficit if not South America?
- AlbertCory 3y agosee the next answer. Common sense tells you they grow more than 64% of their own food. And any imports would mainly come from other Asian countries or North America, not across the Panama Canal and 6,000 miles of ocean, Do you want to place a bet on this?
- ricardobeat 3y agoWhen they talk about “this region” they’re bundling together the entire continent. Brazil exports massive amounts of soy and meat to China. https://www.cepea.esalq.usp.br/en/brazilian-agribusiness-news/china-raises-both-the-volume-imported-from-br-and-the-price-paid-for-the-brazilian-beef.aspx https://www.cepea.esalq.usp.br/en/brazilian-agribusiness-new...
- yorwba 3y agoFor both vegetable products https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/vegetable-products/reporter/chn https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/vegetable-pro... and meat & edible offal https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/meat-edible-offal/reporter/chn https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/meat-edible-o... South America is a more important source than North America.
- vpribish 3y agoJust a little bit of geographic, economic, political, historical sense would be adequate to raise that doubt. china imports around 10% of its food needed. the specifics get complex depending on how you measure and what you measure - but it is not at all credible that 36% of china's food is from south america. and in the recent past they were far less integrated with global trade https://tradingeconomics.com/china/food-imports-percent-of-merchandise-imports-wb-data.html https://tradingeconomics.com/china/food-imports-percent-of-m...
- philipov 3y agoWould you care to enlighten me on each of these 4 factors, in specific terms?
- AlbertCory 3y agoThe statement, algebraically, was (China's food imports from "this region") / (China's total food consumption). Other answers have provided more than enough detail on this. Probably she meant (China's food imports from "this region") / (China's total food imports) Where "this region" means Brazil, not just the disputed province.
- vpribish 3y agoI would not, no.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoDon't doubt it. China is the primary consumer of brazilian soy exports.
- AlbertCory 3y ago36% was a quantitative statement, clearly wrong.
- wood_spirit 3y ago2021 is the latest year listed here. It is possible that they mean 36% of all chinas food imports? https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/CHN/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Import/Partner/by-country/Product/Food https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/CHN/Yea...
- AlbertCory 3y agoNow that, I can believe. Different denominator.
- peteradio 3y agoWonder if that is meant to be 36% of its food imports are from this region. Or even wronger would be 36% of exports from this region go to China.
- AlbertCory 3y agofrom that treemap, it does look like the former. "this region" is a poor choice of words if they mean all of Brazil, not the northern area.
- jldugger 3y agoIt's probably 36% of food imports, but oil & gas is also an incredibly important strategic resource China does not have nearly enough of. Which means their domestic crops are reliant on oil imports from which fertilizer is derived. But also most everything else they hope to manufacture.
- esaym 3y agohttps://i.imgur.com/o0z9Rk2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/o0z9Rk2.jpg
- red-iron-pine 3y agoChina is the single largest producer, and consumer, of grain. they still import tons, but they produce quite a lot. the US is the overall top exporter of grain. Latin America, however, still sends a lot to China.