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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.




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