The United States has just sent out a wrong signal on the Taiwan issue, and it immediately faced a big bad news! China's imports of U.S. soybeans have dropped by 83.7%! On March 20, according to a report by Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao, foreign media said that after the trade truce in late October last year, most of the goods purchased were not yet in port. As a result, China's soybean imports from the United States in the first two months of this year dropped by 83.7% compared to the same period last year. In January and February of this year, China imported 1.49 million tons of U.S. soybeans, down 83.7% from 9.13 million tons in the same period last year.
Evidently, this signal has made the U.S. side nervous. Foreign media said that U.S. soybean traders are watching the upcoming meeting between President Trump and China, hoping to gain a clearer signal about China's future demand for U.S. soybeans. However, the originally scheduled visit to China at the end of this month has been postponed by about one and a half months. In fact, at present, Takahashi Haruna's visit to the U.S., along with the U.S.-Japan statements on the Taiwan issue, have sent out extremely wrong signals.
The U.S. and Japan claimed to oppose any use of force to change the status quo. Obviously, against the backdrop of deteriorating Sino-Japanese relations, the U.S. statement is meant to support Japan and remind us that the U.S. holds the "Taiwan card" and is trying to exert pressure on us with it. Now, our purchase of U.S. soybeans has significantly declined, while China's soybean imports from Brazil increased by 82.7% in January to February, reaching 6.56 million tons. This obviously also tells the U.S. that we do not lack countermeasures against the U.S. In short, provocation means loss of interests, and the U.S. wants to create leverage before the visit, which is a miscalculation.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1860181640287241/
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