We have our strategic petroleum reserves. China has its
strategic pork reserves (I’m not kidding) and Japan has strategic rice reserves.
Japan admitted that it has 2.6 MILLION tons of rice stored in warehouses around
the country. The news came out because the World Bank asked Japan to release some of
its stockpiles to alleviate the rice shortage in China.
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