China Builds Its Own Famine and Exports It

China has a long history of deplorable land management strategies, constructing on the best arable land.

The reason is that in China, GDP is not an output but an input. China’s CCP first decides the GDP it wants at the beginning of the year, to maintain the illusion of its “miracle growth,” also described privately by economists as “bullshit growth,” then that much money needs to be spent on infrastructure that year.

Where does the money come from? Debt. The government gives the order to print the required amount of money, which will be paid “later,” in decades. These debts will never be repaid, because most investments they choose are unproductive, serving more to finance corruption to maintain loyalty than the real economy. It’s a classic mafia in that sense.

That is obviously unsustainable, but it doesn’t matter for the CCP, because its goal is control: control of its population, as well as influence over other nations through lies and fake numbers.

Now back to land. Since arable land is also the easiest to build on, they destroy it to put useless buildings on it. To get a sense of the scale of the madness, China now has enough space to house about three times its total population. Beyond the utter economic waste of such a process, there is another less-known side effect: combining the artificial destruction of arable land with natural destruction through global warming, China ends up in a critical state of being currently unable to feed its population alone. They largely depend on imports of food for survival. That implies two major consequences:

First, China waits for a weak enough Russia to take over Russia’s arable lands in the Caucasus (between Ukraine, Georgia, and Kazakhstan). Not by force, but by buying agricultural land over time, when Russia will have nothing else to sell to pay for critical imports. Then they’ll put Chinese workers in Chinese villages, and Chinese police to defend their assets, exactly as they already did in many other Russian areas. It’s like eating Russia from the inside, with Putin’s consent, who has no choice.

Second, China starts to develop deep aquaculture. Basically, that means building giant cages to put fish 50 m deep in the ocean, and moving them around in the hope of dispersing pollution in the large ocean currents. In other words, since their coasts are so polluted, they now want to blow their pollution much farther away around the globe. Plain and simple. The catch? It works. The consequences? All their neighbors are going to pay a dramatic ecological and economic price for China’s recklessness, triggering political instability in the whole of Southeast Asia in the coming decades.