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China food security: climate change likely to reduce rice, wheat, and other crop yields

Climate change is also likely to lower wheat production:  Global warming will have a bad effect on heat-sensitive wheat, slashing yields even more than was originally feared.  It could be much harder than we thought to feed everyone in a … Continue reading

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China Water issues

China is one of a few and often only place making products from computers to furniture, as well as the components of most products, so if China collapses, the ripple effects will be felt elsewhere. On the other hand, if … Continue reading

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China’s growing energy use and effect on U.S. jobs and prices

[ China’s huge appetite for energy creates a risk of war over the remaining oil resources.  But we are unlikely to take them on directly in the South Sea because they are so much better prepared to launch a cyberattack … Continue reading

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