Comments by "William Warren" (@wbwarren57) on "The factors behind China’s food imports that push up global food prices" video.

Does china really know what is domestically produced food cost? Considering how prices in China are distorted by government mandate and corruption and the lack of real markets, does china really know how much domestically produced food cost? Also, considering the scale of pollution in China, how fast are they destroying their arable land?
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@canicetang8837 thank you, I think your answer is very thoughtful and very good. However I think that the fact that China is divided into provinces which are relatively independently governed under the overall leader ship of the CCP plays a major role in leading to the current situation where each province has been competing to industrialize itself as much as possible in order to make itself as rich as possible and to accomplish the goals of the central CCP with the net result that there’s been a huge amount of damage done to the arable land in China that probably cannot at this point be undone. Another area that I’m very interested in is the impact that so much urbanization is having on the quality of freshwater sources all over China. When it comes to air quality, you can affect that fairly quickly by stopping the cars and turning off the coal fired power plants, but water pollution takes decades to reverse as does the contamination of arable land. It would be interesting to know what the real trend lines are in China at this point with respect to water pollution and arable land contamination to get a feel for how rapidly things are going to deteriorate unless the CCP can make a major course change. Given the widespread corruption in the CCP I am not very hopeful that it will be able to save China from an even darker future.
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@sjv9147s 3 times - once on vacation and twice on life-changing visits. Of course my opinions on China may be wrong and, for the sake of the Chinese people, I sincerely hope they are but the more I learn about the CCP the less hopeful I am. That being said, I look forward with interest, curiosity, and a sincere desire to learn to see what tactic you will employ next to discredit my opinions.
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@randacnam7321 The question I have is as China's manufacturing revenue declines, will the Chinese people starve when the CCP can no longer buy large amounts of food abroad?
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