Parents across the world are feeling the effects of China’s surge in demand for milk formula as stores impose limits on the number of tins that customers can buy, writes Amie Tsang.

随着商店纷纷出台对顾客可购买罐数的限制，中国对配方奶粉需求的激增让世界各国的父母都感受到了影响。

In Hong Kong and Macau the governments have even set up hotlines to ensure supplies to local residents.

在香港和澳门，政府甚至设立了热线电话，以保障对当地居民的奶粉供给。

While it is understandable that Chinese parents do not want to risk the health of their children, this has not stopped the build-up of resentment towards the Chinese who are buying up supplies.

中国父母不想让孩子的健康受到威胁，这固然可以理解，但他们买光奶粉引起的愤怒却渐渐升温，一发不可收拾。

Hong Kong, whose 2011 gross national income per capita of $52,350 compares with China’s $8,390, was the source of a petition to the White House requesting aid for its starving babies.

香港曾经有人向白宫发出请愿，请求对挨饿的香港婴儿提供援助。香港的2011年人均国民收入为52350美元，中国仅为8390美元。

The special economic region has been agitating for some time against the influence from the mainland, and it seems that shortages of milk formula have even made some nostalgic for British rule.

一段时间以来，香港特别行政区一直在积极对抗中国内地的影响。看上去，奶粉短缺甚至令一些人怀念英国统治时期。

A Facebook page called “Baby Hunger Outbreak in Hong Kong, International Aid Requested”, publicises an epetition to the British government saying: “Increasingly Hong Kongers are beginning to resent the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and their failure to bestow democracy on Hong Kong. Many also would like to see a British Democratic rule restored in the region.”

人们在Facebook上建立了“香港儿童饥荒爆发，请求国际援助”页面，公开向英国政府发出电子请愿：“香港人开始越来越怨恨中华人民共和国(PRC)，怨恨它拒绝给予香港民主。很多人希望在香港恢复英国的主统治。”

The threat of shortages has also inspired outraged headlines worldwide, such as a headline in the Daily Telegraph in Sydney: “Chinese clear shelves of our baby formula”.

奶粉短缺的威胁导致全球各地报纸打出愤怒标题，例如悉尼《每日电讯报》(Daily Telegraph)曾刊出标题《中国人抢光了我们的婴儿奶粉》。

Chinese clear shelves of our baby formula？