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For this scenario, lets say Mao during the planning of the Great Leap Forward (1956 - 58), decides to direct the vast labor power of the Chinese state at disrupting the capitalist global market above all else.

Thus the plan ITTL will be the collapse/disruption of as many western agricultural commodity prices/production chains as possible, instead of just competing in a variety of industrial sectors (i.e. steel).

Therefore, which agricultural good(s) could Maoist China produce in massive enough quantities to cause the greatest disruption to global prices/production.
And based on your choices(s), what would be the short and long term effects for China and the world at large?
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