{"id":55538,"date":"2023-05-29T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/29\/chinas-war-chest-beijing-seeks-to-remedy-its-vulnerability-to-food-and-energy-embargoes"},"modified":"2023-05-29T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T23:01:01","slug":"chinas-war-chest-beijing-seeks-to-remedy-its-vulnerability-to-food-and-energy-embargoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55538","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s war chest: Beijing seeks to remedy its vulnerability to food and energy embargoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dependence on food and energy imports could be China\u2019s biggest weakness in a potential future conflict with Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Not much could unite Peng Lifa, the activist who disappeared after staging a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/13\/shanghai-covid-restrictions-fuel-fears-of-another-lockdown\">rare anti-lockdown protest<\/a> in Beijing last year, and Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader who Peng was criticising. But in October 2022, both men diagnosed the same vulnerability in China: food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want food, not PCR tests,\u201d read Peng\u2019s bright red characters, emblazoned on a banner hung over Beijing\u2019s Sitong Bridge on 13 October. Three days later, Xi gave a speech to the Chinese Communist party (CCP) about how to \u201chold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/29\/chinas-war-chest-beijing-seeks-to-remedy-its-vulnerability-to-food-and-energy-embargoes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dependence on food and energy imports could be China\u2019s biggest weakness in a potential future conflict with TaiwanNot much could unite Peng Lifa, the activist who disappeared after staging a rare anti-lockdown protest in Beijing last year, and Xi Jin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,74,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-taiwan","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55539,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55538\/revisions\/55539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}