"That created a panic in the importing countries because they didn't feel like they could any longer count on the world market to supply their needs, " Brown says.
布朗说：“这就会造成粮食进口国家的恐慌，因为他们会有一种不能再依靠世界市场以满足自己需求的感觉。”
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Its oil market is now the second largest in the world – 40 per cent larger than Japan's – and it has gone in less than 15 years from self sufficiency to importing half its total supply.