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Preventing your enemy from developing their own supply chains by letting them use yours could actually be a workable strategy.
Making it irresistible to use yours, even. Reminds me of those mycelium that allow trees to share resources, but can also cut them off: the fungi giveth the nutrients of life, but the fungi can taketh away.
This is what the US and UN do with food aid. To paraphrase Sankara, real food aid isn’t grain and millet, it’s tractors and fertilizer. Just in China’s case they’re sabotaging empire, and in the former it’s in service of it
A good chunk of famines happen because of the us dumping corn on local markets until local food ag collapses, then losing interest when the price of corn changes.