Research Progress on the Impact of Geopolitical Risks on the Resilience of China's Transnational Food Supply Chains

ABSTRACT Geopolitical risks have emerged as a significant factor influencing the resilience of transnational food supply chains. This paper systematically reviews the foundational theories and key issues related to the resilience of transnational food supply chains from the geopolitical risk's perspective. Literature analysis indicate that geopolitical risks primarily affect the resilience of China's transnational food supply chains: supply uncertainty, price uncertainty and logistics uncertainty. Additionally, review of empirical studies on the impact of geopolitical risks on the resilience of transnational food supply chains reveals that existing research generally supports the view that geopolitical risks significantly diminish the resilience of China's transnational food supply chains, although variations exist across different grain varieties and over time regarding the extent and nature of these impacts. Finally, this paper proposes future research directions, including identifying the transmission pathways of geopolitical risks affecting China's transnational food supply chains, uncovering the behavioral logic of multiple actors within these chains under geopolitical risks, systematically assessing the resilience of key nodes and the overall risk level of China's transnational food supply chains, conducting an in‐depth exploration of the reconstruction pathways for these chains, and designing strategies to integrate the interests of diverse stakeholders in transnational food supply chains.