The food crisis in Ethiopia and other places is severe, and the United Nations has called on China and rich countries to lend a helping hand.

(AFP)

[Financial Channel/Comprehensive Report] The global food crisis is severe. Many people are starving and freezing. The United Nations Food Program cannot raise 23 billion U.S. dollars for emergency relief. Director David Beasley named China, which claims to be out of poverty, and is the second largest in the world. As a large economy, the average amount of donations per Chinese person last year was less than 1 cent (about NT$30), compared to the US$22 (about NT$668) per person in the United States. China has a moral obligation A lot of critical assistance.

The Associated Press reported that the head of the United Nations Food Program Beasley said that without billions of dollars to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see large-scale refugees, endless Stable countries and hungry children and adults.

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Beasley said he was very concerned that the World Food Program would not be able to raise the roughly $23 billion it needs this year to help millions of people in need. "I would be surprised if we could get 40 percent."

He called for China to be the first to be named, as the world's second-largest economy provided just $11 million to the World Food Program last year.

In particular, China claims to be successful in poverty alleviation, but compared with the world's leading economy, the United States, China's per capita donation last year was less than 1 cent, while the US's per capita donation was about 22 US dollars.

Beasley believes that China should participate in multilateral organizations and provide critical assistance, "They have a moral obligation to do so."

At the same time, with high oil prices, the Gulf countries can also do more, especially Muslim countries that have relations with countries in East Africa, the Sahara and other parts of the Middle East should increase their contributions.

The World Food Program has just been forced to cut 50 percent of its rations to the four million people in Afghanistan who are now knocking on the door of famine, Beasley said.

If it's not handled carefully, we're literally going to see hell on earth.

Beasley emphasized that the number of hungry people increased from about 276 million before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 to 350 million, and there is no reason for any child to starve to death.

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