Construction was only 7% of China's GDP in 2022 (and only some of that is Evergrande-style ghost cities). Compare that to the US where construction is 4% of the GDP.
All countries need trade to sustain themselves.
You clearly stopped reading at the headline, since it doesn't even mention the province stricken by typhoons/flooding. Maybe then you'd see why China's "food self-sufficiency" decreased and noticed it's mostly just luxury foods instead of the basis of the diet.
That link and video literal dismantled your entire argument, so it's clear you're Just trying to save face.
That's not what your quote says. It says China imports a lower percentage than Japan and ROK. That is a very low bar.
150 years ago 5% was enough to cause a famine. It's safe to say things are not going well.
You ran away from CCP megathread, I covered the food crisis, typhoons that hit east coast, economic woes, widespread blight and locust problems in problems. You yourself admitted that China is a net importer of wheat, rice and soy.
Oh no a article from 2004 and NTD just happened post China Uncensored link. As far as I am concerned you're grasping at straws then cry about CIA. You don't need spooks to see commies in a bad light, they hid information about COVID epidemic in wuhan and in other provinces in December 2019, proceed to get shills on mainstream media how fast China is rising and why should invest in China.
What did Vietnam and the EU (and to a lesser extent, Egypt) know that China didn't back in 2018?
Chinese tariffs on US soybeans drove up the price of Brazilian soybeans. Everyone that wasn't China bought more US soybeans. 5 years later, China is buying more US soy than ever and Brazil is making a killing.
Googled "2018 soy famine" because I wanted to give benefit of the doubt and stumbled upon the article I linked in my edit on the second entry in the search.
Construction ≠ real estate.
Economics is the art of trying to meet unlimited wants with limited resources. Politics is the art of convincing people that resources aren't actually limited, as long as you have the political will and elect me.
That's mostly the province of the State of California, although the feds do sometimes fund bridges to nowhere.
To be fair, the OG "bridge to nowhere" actually was meant to go somewhere, but resulting natural disasters further down the line (flooding) made the Government change the planned route of the highway, but left a completed bridge along the abandoned route.
The airport being a big deal for a city that has no road connection to the rest of Alaska.
Orange county, Scientologists build many bridges to nowhere after extensive brain rot sessions, jokes
Outside plans for building a military base in bumfuck nowhere and potential oil drilling or forest industry, government is likely to ax this proposed airfield construction. Glowniggers love to stay away from people. It would be a waste of money. It's just 50 people who knows what is keeping them there
Just bringing up the Gravina Island Bridge makes people retarded.
You can't even explain how it did, probably because you're a midwit who doesn't know what he's talking about.
My mistake, I shouldn't assume people here have any knowledge of East Asian economics. Here's a stat from last year, by my count China is exporting over 2 billion dollars worth of food products to South Korea (mostly seafood, fruits, and vegetables but including 190 million dollars worth of cereals i.e. grain). For Japan it's over 4 billion, including seafood, fruits, vegetables and also 79 million dollars worth of cereals. Since Japan has about twice the population of ROK, this represents a lot of the food resources in either country.
That wasn't even necessarily true in China centuries ago whenever the government got off its ass and made sure the merchants were shipping rice using the canal network they maintained (go read about the Grand Canal). Natural disasters destroying a portion of the crop is a common event globally, like here's one from 2020 where a windstorm destroyed 550,000 acres of corn in Iowa (a little over 4% of Iowa's corn acreage, or 0.6% of the entire US).
The majority of the developed world aren't feeding 1/7th of the world's entire population on 8% of the world's arable land, and even your map there (which is over twenty years old) shows China's self-sufficiency. I don't think China "saving" ghost cities is good policy, but end of the day it's no different than all the self-destructive policies the Fed does to protect investments in the US (like printing money to paper over a recession to protect the stock market).
Moving goalposts there a little laddie. It went from ”every country needs food imports” to majority and uncitated 1/7 number. EU as a whole got over Pandemic and ongoing war in Ukraine.
Ah yes, the usual debate tactic you use, where once you are proven wrong you throw out a random logical fallacy and start gish galloping about random nonsense. Also, you seriously don't know that China has 1/7 of the world's population? Or at the very least did until recently.
Rice terraces are Lysenkoism? That's a hot take, not that you appear to have clue what a rice terrace or Lysenkoism is. Why should I bother addressing any of your other points? You don't know a thing about agriculture, so why would you understand something like how soil doesn't get "permanently polluted" otherwise the entire US Midwest (and most of the East Coast) would be nothing but a chemical wasteland after 100 years of industrial pollution that only within the past 20-30 years became not AS bad (but everything in the Ohio River and many other rivers is toxic to eat).
Sounds like you're moving the goalposts here since I explained just why China imports food. Here's a good one, let's look at US food imports from China. That's around two billion dollars worth of vegetables, seafood, and even staple cereals (35 million dollars worth) being imported from China.
Rejection of science based agriculture
Gish galloping where I address your every point in detail with sources
