Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "China’s Urgent Food Crisis: No One Farms, Farmland Gone, Frequent Disasters, High Import Reliance" video.

China's agricultural land is far less productive than that of the US and many other countries. It requires far more inputs. Actually, Brazil is in a similar situation, only potentially worse. Disruptions in world trade will affect both China and Brazil greatly. One must not forget why the one child policy was implemented. The fear of the CCP was that their growing population would be a detriment to their rule because of their inability to feed it. Opening up and allowing massive food imports helped. The one child policy has condemned China to demographic collapse. That is not a strong position from which to threaten the world. A country that imports a large amount of food and industrial inputs from far away is in no position to take over the world. China's navy is in no position to guarantee these inputs will flow freely. That also assumes that other countries will still want to send them.
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@tarstarkusz Wow! Where do you get your information? China has, most probably, less than the reported numbers, and they never got close to 1.5 billion. Some analysts believe that they have overcounted by 100M or more people, and these are those that would have been born while the one child policy was in force. Add to that the dismally low birth rate in China today and there is no coming back from this.
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@tarstarkusz Wow! Where do you get your information? China has, most probably, less than the reported numbers, and they never got close to 1.5 billion. Some analysts believe that they have overcounted by 100M or more people, and these are those that would have been born while the one child policy was in force. Add to that the dismally low birth rate in China today and there is no coming back from this.
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