Source: Chris Bennett, AGWEB, 8/6/19


As the United States and China play tennis in an economic minefield, American farmers are forced to watch from the stands, and no matter how the current tariff war ends, a roller coaster ride for U.S. agriculture may be only just beginning in the long game of U.S.-China economic competition. At the 2018 G-7 Summit, President Trump cited the U.S. as “the piggy bank that everybody is robbing.” However, “everybody” doesn’t hold a candle to China on the international stage. In the vernacular: Brussels ain’t Beijing. 

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