Chinese make up 20 percent of the global population. Let’s pause for a moment and picture just how different the would look in these two scenarios: : in one, Chinese are well fed and able to help feed other nations; in the other, Chinese are starving and need the rest of the world to feed them.
Fortunately, by now we are in the first scenario, but the situation could flip around very quickly if the Chinese authority adopts a proposal made by a private but high profile “think tank” (Tianze economic research centre).
The centre is headed by an old man named Mao Yushi who is said to be a professor and has a long track record of sharing his dreadful wisdom with the rest of Chinese. A few days ago Mao Yushi held a news conference in Beijing and announced a new research finding by the centre: there is no direct link between the size of cultivated land area China has and the amount of the crop output China can yield each year. Based on this consumption, he challenged the wisdom of China’s policy that prohibits 120 million hectares of highly productive cropland to be used for urban development.
“There are enough food produced by other countries and available for purchase at international market,” exclaimed Mao Yushi, earnestly, which makes his news conference a bit like sales promotion for the largest wheat export country in the world, namely the United States. (The biggest wheat export nations: rochedalss.eq.edu.au/wheat.htm)
But is our world really such a wonderful place where there is plenty of food for everyone all year round? If so, why would some poor mothers in Haitian have to make mud pies to feed their families? Maybe it’s because they are too poor, and according to the Law of the Jungle commonly held in the West and religiously followed by Mao Yushi, they are the losers of social selection, and losers ought not to expect too much from life.
But what about those well-off countries with heaps of hard cash to splash? Will they also be affected by global food crisis? And after all, does the world still have a chance of experiencing global food shortage now and then? The following passages, from a news report titled Biggest Grain Exporters Halt Foreign Sales (by Javier Blas in London, Isabel Gorst in Moscow and Lindsay Whipp in Tokyo) published on Financial Time in April 15, 2008 (www.ft.com), might give us a bit of a clue about the question:
The global food crisis intensified on Tuesday as Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest wheat exporters, halted foreign sales and rice prices shot to a record high after Indonesia stopped its farmers from selling the grain abroad.
In another sign of turmoil, a big food company in Japan, Nihon Shokuhin Kako, said high corn prices had forced it to buy cheaper genetically modified corn for the first time, breaking a social, though not legal, taboo and signalling that opposition to GM foods could weaken in the face of record food prices.
Now here is another question to chuck in: Is the self-claimed food security researcher and “professor” Mao Yushi completely out of the loop? If this is the case, he must have faked his professional qualifications. But if this is not the case, then why did he deliberately mislead his fellow countrymen, just like he always does, and in such a bloody stupid way? A lot of Chinese reckon he’s got no choice, because his research centre is backed by Ford Foundation, so there is a direct connection between how much he earns and how much the Foundation is happy to chuck into his bank account.
Finally, just in case you don’t know much about Ford Foundation, you can check out this article:
The Ford Foundation and the CIA:
A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police
The CIA uses philanthropic foundations as the most effective conduit to channel large sums of money to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source.
Good taste, American style:
Ford Foundation, a philanthropic facade for the CIA
The largest philanthropic organization in the world was in fact providing a respectful facade for CIA financial and contact operations. This role was even more possible by the fact that the same persons designed and directed both organizations.