America and China are in a battle over the world’s food supply. How can the U.S. prevail over its greatest adversary?

From CBN. During the pandemic, Americans experienced food shortages due to the impact on the world’s vulnerable supply chain. While that situation has somewhat recovered, another global event could make that recent experience the new normal.

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Two experts warn a brewing battle between the United States and China over control of the world’s food supply could become such an event. …

“Food is power. We need to remember that. And this is very dangerous for the United States,” warned Kip Tom, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Food and Agriculture.

Tom explained that China is determined to seize control of the African continent. “It’s not about the mining and the critical minerals. It’s about agricultural productivity,” he explained.

Gatestone Institute’s China analyst Gordon Chang agrees believes China has a food problem. “It’s worsening food shortages, self-sufficiency, percentages for food for China are relentlessly falling,” Chang said.

That’s why this year, ports in Shanghai are reportedly on target to receive a quarter of a million tons of food from Africa, valued at more than half a billion dollars. The African Union wants to expand trade with Beijing and gain Chinese innovation to help expand long-term food production. …

“The reality is the Chinese Communist Party goes in through every country in Africa investing in infrastructure and other projects and capturing the country’s natural resources,” Tom explained. “But their ultimate goal is to have Africa be the breadbasket for the country of China to feed their 1.4 billion people.” …

A future conflict over Taiwan, or tariffs and trade battles, could place the U.S. food supply at risk. …

So, what can be done in the short term to strengthen the food security of the United States?

Ambassador Tom insists the country needs to increase domestic food production and manufacture critical agricultural products like fertilizers and others rather than getting them from adversaries like Russia, Belarus, and China. …

Chang contends China is motivated by the doctrine of tianxia — the belief that the CCP has the right to rule all under heaven and is obligated to do so. …

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(Excerpt from CBN. Photo Credit: sanfel/Getty Images)