China rushes 30,000 tons of emergency rice aid to 'brotherly' communist ally Cuba amid crippling food shortages and near-collapse.
Handover ceremony complete with the usual pomp – because in socialist paradises, even charity for starvation gets red banners and formal speeches.
Yet again: One planned economy bails out another from the inevitable failures of communism.
Why is it that every communist regime – from the USSR's famines, Mao's Great Leap disaster (60M+ dead), North Korea's endless hunger, to Venezuela and now Cuba – always ends up starving its own people despite promising abundance?