How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by tepidandroid on Saturday July 27, 2019 @03:06AM (#20540794)

If I understand the point you’re trying to make correctly, you’re likening China’s claim to Xinjiang to that of the historical colonial powers?

Because if we’re going to go down that road, I have to warn you that the Xinjiang story is not nearly as black and white as the British, Dutch or American stories.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday July 27, 2019 @11:38AM (#20542491)

I’m pretty aware of the history: the Qing brought the Uighurs into north Xinjiang to genocide the Mongolians, who already killed a bunch of Han living there already. Still, again, nothing in history has shown that China is any better at colonizing lands than the west (or even the Russians).

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by echaozh on Sunday July 28, 2019 @04:14AM (#20546417)

No. Xinjiang, or whatever its name was, was controlled by the Chinese government more than a thousand years before the Qing dynasty.

China didn't really colonize, if colonization means to move there and enslave the natives.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by tepidandroid on Saturday July 27, 2019 @09:09PM (#20545283)

I'm glad you know the history there. It's definitely more convoluted than most people think.

> nothing in history has shown that China is any better at colonizing lands than the west

I agree - I guess historically speaking, China just hasn't colonized enough countries to have a decent sample size.

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