When unrefrigerated, they used copious amounts of salt to keep butter from spoiling. So much so that you'd have to first wash the butter (wash the salt away) before using it.

You're a bit naive if you think China is a peace loving country that wouldn't bomb the living shit out of any opposing nation if they could do so without recourse

Even now they are posturing in their "South-Chinese Sea", or as the Filipino's like to call it, the "West-Phillipine Sea". Also, Taiwan, Hong Kong...

And then we haven't even talked about how nice they are to their own citizens.

China is growing in strength and moving towards a new global world order, and the way Trump is fucking up US supremacy at the moment, China might well succeed.

Another reason I think is that not all of these varieties thrive as small trees, and most factory farmed trees are kept small because it makes picking them easier.

Have you heard of this thing called the internet?