The United States and India have been in frequent contact recently, and there are rumors that the two countries are plotting to put pressure on China from the southwest to force China to face a double front when a crisis erupts in the Taiwan Strait. However, India did not expect that its own food security was affected by China, and a large amount of urea was blocked in the port of Tianjin.
Reuters reported that India reported to China**, accusing China of restricting the export of key agricultural materials, resulting in India's about 500,000 tons of urea, which could not reach India. India also said that China is the world's largest producer of urea, accounting for one-third of the world's nitrogen fertilizer**. India believes that China is deliberately inflating the world's agricultural supplies** and deliberately attacking India's agriculture.
In this regard, China has responded in early September, saying that due to factors such as unstable international situation and extreme weather, China has taken the initiative to reduce the export of urea to ensure the stability of domestic production. China said it could not do anything about the needs of other countries.
In fact, India's chemical industry is not developed, the demand for fertilizers is large, and it has always relied on imports, and China was India's main nitrogen fertilizer country in the past. However, China's restrictions on fertilizer exports this time are not aimed at India, but are affected by Japan's discharge of nuclear-contaminated water. Japan's actions have caused great damage to the marine aquaculture industry and may cause problems with food ** off the coast of China. In order to ensure food security, China has to supplement its food from other sources**, so the export of fertilizers must be controlled.
Some in India believe that fertilizers can be imported from places such as the Middle East, Egypt and Russia. However, neither of these places has the industrial capacity and production capacity to fill China's vacancies. Moreover, the continuous escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has increased the risk of a global food crisis. Coupled with the possibility of nuclear contamination of seafood in the future, the threat of global famine will become a reality. It will be increasingly difficult for India to import fertilizers from these places.
As for India's continuous efforts to China, I personally think that China can ignore it for the time being. India's recent ambitions have been too big, taking advantage of China's busy response to all-round pressure from the United States, and it has been increasing its military presence on the Sino-Indian border. Even at the G20 summit, the issue of southern Tibet was provoked. There is also news that India is considering cooperating with the United States to put China in a two-front war on the east and west when a crisis breaks out in the Taiwan Strait. Clearly, India, under its long-term populist politics, has forgotten its strength. If China does not plan to solve India's problems at the same time as confronting the United States, then it can use the issue of food security to send a warning to India that Modi will not forget the lessons of history.