The food war is an asymmetrical war. The party with weapons has an overwhelming advantage of killing and killing. The attacked party has no power to fight.

Therefore, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said: If you control oil, you control all countries; if you control food, you control all people.

Nowadays, this kind of weapons of mass destruction is a weapon of mass destruction cast by God's preference and the international free trade. The target of shooting is the general public who live and work in peace and contentment. It destroys the tranquility of the rice and oil, and it is a happy family. . Insufficient food and clothing, famine, social unrest, the government collapsed, and it was done, and no military means to achieve a major victory!

The food war is a more inhumane form of war than the nuclear war. Thousands of ordinary people are hungry and cause riots! In the current era of civilization, should not happen? However, in the face of rights and interests, what is humanity? In other words, the Spring and Autumn Period has no righteous war, hasn’t it played for hundreds of years? Confucius, his old man is very helpless, and many people are very helpless. Whether the flowers fall or not, the geese always return. . .

Of course, the food war touches the bottom line of human nature. In this relatively civilized world, the use of food to slash is more likely to cause the condemnation of international public opinion and the moral high point than the use of guns and missiles to tear the living body.

Therefore, now the international community, the tube-style food war has been hard to see, replaced by a more subtle financial war. The US hunting of China's soybean industry is such a kind of food finance war that combines futures. This kind of war is aimed at controlling the industry and occupying the market. It is often dominated by large agricultural groups (ABCD), financial giants (Goldman Sachs, Morgan). Pushed on.

Sovereign countries only use political means to exploit trade rules and tear open a hole in local positions. Powerful multinational food finance groups can achieve the goal of destroying a country's agriculture by using normal means of trade.

Too far from heaven, Haiti that is too close to the United States

A very typical example is Haiti, which is too far from heaven and too close to the United States.

Haiti, one of the most failed countries in the world today. Clinton once said that Haiti was once one of the richest countries in the region.

She has a very proud history: the first black country in the Americas against the white rule of independence, even earlier than the US abolition of slavery, is one of the founding members of the United Nations today.

Once upon a time, Haiti was also an agricultural country. The agricultural population accounted for 80% of the country's employed population. It produces 170,000 tons of rice per year, which can meet 95% of the country's needs.

In 1994, the US Clinton administration sent 20,000 US troops to protect President Aristide, who was overthrown by the Haitian people, from coming to power. Aristide dried up, reducing rice import tariffs from 50% to 3%. After the tariff threshold was lowered, American rice, which was subsidized by the US government, quickly occupied the Haitian grain market with a price advantage of half the price of Haitian rice, and eventually reached a market share of more than 80%. A large number of farmers were unemployed and the agricultural industry was destroyed.

If Haitians can always enjoy low-priced rice, it is a blessing, but unfortunately it is whimsical.

In 2008, global food prices rose, and the price of rice, soybeans and fruits in Haiti rose by 50% from 2007, and the price of pasta has doubled. Haitian people earn less than US$2 a day. The soaring food prices have had a serious impact on people's lives. Many farmers even rely on a kind of earthy biscuit called “Tray”.

The hungry people finally couldn’t stand it and launched a riot. Haitian Prime Minister Alexis was forced to resign.

The situation in Haiti is strikingly similar to the food war in Guanzhong during the Spring and Autumn Period, and this has become a fixed pattern in some countries today to destroy agricultural systems in other countries.

International food free trade circulation is an important part of international trade negotiations. The United States and Europe use the strategic advantages of controlling the rules to continuously open up the countries where agriculture has disadvantages in agriculture. The food finance complex occupies the target market, controls the agricultural industry and grain production and sales, and then controls the lifeline of other countries' survival. The International Trade Organization is the biggest accomplice.

Developed countries such as the United States and Europe have created powerful food production and trade machines by virtue of their natural endowments and large subsidies. They have hit many grain industries in third world countries, including China's soybean industry, and the Chinese corn industry is also in jeopardy.

This is the reason why Japan has refused to reduce the import tariffs on rice in any trade negotiations. Even Japan’s very, very, very important TPP, the Japan-US negotiations ended in the final import quota of 250,000 tons of rice (and finally reached an agreement). ), while the Japanese rice production is 7.8 million tons, the tariff is 778% (there is no decimal point in the middle!) How much is China, with an extra 65%.

Naked food wars are rare, but food is a powerful political weapon that is used by some countries.

Former US Secretary of Agriculture John Brock: Food is a weapon, and the way to use it is to tie the countries to us so that they don't mess with us.

The US Central Intelligence Agency reports that the lack of food in the third world countries has given the United States unprecedented power... Washington has the right to kill and kill the vast majority of the food-deficient people.

Food political weapons

In 1945, food weapons were used in two socialist countries. Due to the growing disagreement between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, the United States provided Yugoslavia with huge food aid in order to "support" Yugoslavia’s complete rogue with the Soviet Union. This also increased the Soviet Union’s serious distrust of Yugoslavia to some extent, eventually leading to two The country has completely broken.

In 1949, New China was banned by food. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the United States and other Western allies immediately imposed a comprehensive blockade and commodity embargo on China, including food, in an attempt to disrupt the red China by disrupting the food supply of this new and wasteful new country. The US embargo against China continued until the early 1970s. At this time, it coincided with the break of China and the Soviet Union, and the United States wooed China against the Soviet Union.

In 1962, in the face of severe disasters in China, Americans still did not forget to take the ruthlessness: allowing China to use hard currency gold reserves, which were very limited at that time, were brought to Taiwan by the Chairman Jiang) to buy 3 to 5 million tons of wheat from the United States. . Or China agreed to abandon military and political pressure on neighboring countries (including Taiwan), and the US agreed to sell tens of thousands of tons of wheat annually to China in a long-term and low-interest-selling manner.

In 1963, the Soviet Union was embargoed. During the global food crisis that year, the Soviet Union suffered a serious shortage of food. The United States led by the United States imposed a severe food embargo on the Soviet Union. The lie that the Soviet Union had to produce to increase grain production deceived the United States and used one-third of its gold reserves to buy food. After the reaction of Western countries, the Soviet Union has already passed the most difficult period.

Between 1965 and 1967, India was under food aid. Due to the climate impact, India has caused a severe shortage of food and the most serious food crisis since independence. In 1965, India and the United States allied Pakistan fought a war. The United States once stopped aiding India and pressured India. In 1971, the war between India and Pakistan broke out again, and the United States reappeared. In addition, the United States also adopted a policy of restricting grain exports to India, which ultimately forced India to change its foreign policy against the US invasion of Vietnam.

In 1970, Chile became a doll for food aid in the United States. When the "Marxist" Allende was elected president of Chile, in order to prevent the emergence of a second Cuba in the Americas, the US food aid to Chile ceased immediately. After Allende died in the US-backed opposition and military coup, US food aid quickly recovered, and Chile entered a long military dictatorship.

In 1973, Japan was injured by an ally. The United States imposed an embargo on soybeans, cottonseed and its products due to the unprecedented rise in domestic food prices. 97% of Japan's soybeans are imported, 92% of which are from the United States.

From 1980 to 1981, the Soviet Union disintegrated in the food crisis. This year, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and the United States imposed a grain embargo on it. In the late 1980s, the world's favorite Soviet leader, Gorbachev, came to power and opened up Soviet reform. The West immediately changed its attitude toward the Soviet Union: how much food the Soviet Union needs for food. The price that the Soviet Union paid while getting food was the disintegration of the entire federation.

Since 1994, North Korea has also been tempted. North Korea has been in drought for many years and there is a shortage of food supplies. The United States is assisting North Korea with Japan and South Korea on the condition that North Korea must abandon its nuclear program and cooperate with the United States in easing the situation on the peninsula.

In the past two years, due to North Korea’s ongoing nuclear tests, it is said that China has cut off food aid to North Korea. (I evaluate only legends)

Nowadays, why do some countries are well versed in controlling food weapons (of course, only one)?

God's preferred United States

The plains below 500 meters above sea level in the United States account for 55% of the country's land area, and the cultivated land area is 2.8 billion mu, accounting for more than 20% of the total land area, accounting for 13% of the total cultivated land in the world. Moreover, more than 70% of the cultivated land is large. The form of area contiguous distribution is concentrated in the Great Plains and the inland lowland, which is convenient for mechanized large-scale operation, and the soil is mostly composed of grassland black soil (including chernozem), chestnut soil and dark brown soil, and the organic matter content is high. Particularly suitable for crop growth.

US food production accounts for about one-fifth of the world's total production and is the world's largest exporter of crop production and products. The world's corn production ranks first in the world, accounting for 42.6% of the world's total output, and exports account for 64.5% of the world's total exports. Soybean production ranks first in the world, accounting for 32.0% of the world's total output; exports account for 39.4% of the world's total exports. Rice production ranks 12th in the world, accounting for 1.5% of the world's total output; exports account for 9.7% of the world's total exports. The third place in the world of cotton, accounting for 17.7% of the world's total output; exports accounted for 34.9% of the world's total exports. Exports of coarse grains and oilseeds accounted for 45.7% and 37.6% of the world's total exports of similar products, respectively.

The largest strategic resource in the United States is agriculture.

One-third of the land in the United States is in a fallow state, and farming is also a ripening system. The rational close planting technology is far from reaching the level of utilization in China. The United States can easily increase grain production by 30%-50% in the short term. In the long run of more than 10 years, it is not difficult to increase food production by 100%. Should this happen, 000061 cheap US agricultural products, buying flooded the world, the devastation of agriculture developed countries in agriculture and natural endowments, poor agricultural country to be. American agriculture has the ability to destroy the agricultural systems of most countries in the world today.

The biggest strategic advantage of the United States is not the US military. The US military will face heavy losses with China and Russia. Not a US dollar bill, a financial war must be both loses. Not strategic nuclear weapons, they must destroy each other. It is agriculture and food. Agriculture is the largest strategic resource of the United States and the cornerstone of the hegemony of the United States.