China's Food Security Push and Australia's Strategic Balancing Act

China is executing a audacious 15-year plan to achieve world dominance in the mass manufacture of protein, leveraging the same state-backed playbook that already controls 70 per cent or more of the global market for solar power and electric vehicles. The Politburo's 15th five-year plan places food security on a par with defence, aiming to end strategic dependence on imports by developing genetically modified seeds, lab-grown proteins, and...