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> China gets 36% of its food source from this region.

Doubtful on that one.

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2021 is the latest year listed here.

It is possible that they mean 36% of all chinas food imports?

https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/CHN/Yea...

Now that, I can believe. Different denominator.

China grows about 2/3rds of its own food. It definitely doesn't get 100% of the rest from South America.

Why do you doubt that? China's population is so large, even their ample farming capacity isn't enough to support it on its own. To whom do you think they turn to fill the deficit if not South America?

see the next answer.

Common sense tells you they grow more than 64% of their own food. And any imports would mainly come from other Asian countries or North America, not across the Panama Canal and 6,000 miles of ocean,

Do you want to place a bet on this?

When they talk about “this region” they’re bundling together the entire continent. Brazil exports massive amounts of soy and meat to China.

https://www.cepea.esalq.usp.br/en/brazilian-agribusiness-new...

For both vegetable products https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/vegetable-pro... and meat & edible offal https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/meat-edible-o... South America is a more important source than North America.

Just a little bit of geographic, economic, political, historical sense would be adequate to raise that doubt.

china imports around 10% of its food needed. the specifics get complex depending on how you measure and what you measure - but it is not at all credible that 36% of china's food is from south america. and in the recent past they were far less integrated with global trade

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/food-imports-percent-of-m...

Would you care to enlighten me on each of these 4 factors, in specific terms?

The statement, algebraically, was (China's food imports from "this region") / (China's total food consumption).

Other answers have provided more than enough detail on this.

Probably she meant (China's food imports from "this region") / (China's total food imports)

Where "this region" means Brazil, not just the disputed province.

I would not, no.

Wonder if that is meant to be 36% of its food imports are from this region. Or even wronger would be 36% of exports from this region go to China.

from that treemap, it does look like the former. "this region" is a poor choice of words if they mean all of Brazil, not the northern area.

It's probably 36% of food imports, but oil & gas is also an incredibly important strategic resource China does not have nearly enough of. Which means their domestic crops are reliant on oil imports from which fertilizer is derived. But also most everything else they hope to manufacture.

Don't doubt it. China is the primary consumer of brazilian soy exports.

36% was a quantitative statement, clearly wrong.

China is the single largest producer, and consumer, of grain. they still import tons, but they produce quite a lot.

the US is the overall top exporter of grain.

Latin America, however, still sends a lot to China.

https://i.imgur.com/o0z9Rk2.jpg

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