Opinion | Beijing Can’t Bring Home the Bacon

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From WSJopinion: Along with slow growth and high-tech oppression, pork shortages in China may make the masses squeal, writes Michael Auslin

It might look as though the Communist Party is in complete control of mainland China, but there’s a new threat to social stability: African swine fever is devastating the pig population. With pork prices skyrocketing and the virus spreading across the globe, the specter of a crippling pork shortage looms.

That has Beijing worried. Pork makes up about 60% of Chinese meat consumption, which accounts for nearly half the world’s pork market. Shortages and price spikes, combined with dissatisfaction over slowing economic growth and increasing repression, could produce political unrest. That’s the last thing Beijing wants.

 

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opinion Pretty sure the obscene inequality and poverty and lack of labor rights and vicious suppression of workers attempting to unionize (all in a supposedly Marxist country) will provoke more “squealing from the masses” than a pork shortage

opinion biologic weapon, US is responsible for this epidemy

opinion Wooooomp

opinion masses need to be heavily armed and overthrow corrupt Chinese government

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