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PRC is middle income industrial economy and thus their food issues are issues of trying to eat more and more fish, meat, and sugar per capita, not of pure caloric intake measured in grain and rice. That's not sub-saharan Africa. As any industrial nation, it could cut on food production easily...

But you know well, surely, that the PRC is currently utterly peacetime economy. Increases in military spending exist, but again, are nowhere near levels possible. China could afford to double it's military spending, but it choose not to. At the Soviet patterns of spending they would be utterly...

On the other hand, they encouraged Tesla to create a gigafactory in China, and try to make the whole island of Hainan another well-controlled competition to Hongkong. https://amp.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3088593/chinas-massive-hainan-free-trade-port-plan-raises-questions

Understood, and of course their military expenses are rising, sure. But that's still not the Soviet-style militarised economy. And look at something that environmentalists like very much, and that is indeed nice in a way, but would have interesting strategic implications ten/twenty/thirty years...

That increase is still around 2% of the total Chinese GDP. For USSR it was 16.6% in 1987 (well, it's slightly hard to say, but in between 15-20% of the Soviet GDP). Tell me this again when the PRC literally double their military spending, then double it again. And end electrification of...

This is a nice place but also a somewhat conservative bubble, and with it comes conservative wishful thinking. Trump had a great chances to win before COVID, but after society was shocked and economy greatly damaged. Who is truly guilty of that is not important at all, not to many US voters...

China spends less than 2% of it's GDP on military forces. This is not a pattern of spending consistent with wanting to conquer anything now or during the close future, especially given that the Chinese programs of electrification in transportation systems may need additional twenty-thirty...