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Can’t fight the weather

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Beijing has limited tools to combat the impact of recent extreme weather on key crops, raising the specter of shortages and price spikes.
Over the past two weeks:

The remnants of Typhoon Doksuri caused severe flooding in Beijing, Hebei, and Jilin provinces, and drenched farms in Liaoning and Heilon...