US President Trump said today (Beijing Time October 15): "I think China deliberately not buying our soybeans and causing difficulties for our soybean farmers is an act of economic hostility. As a retaliation, we are considering terminating business relations with China in areas such as edible oil and other trade sectors. For example, we can easily produce edible oil ourselves without having to buy from China."
[Witty] Comment: Trump's remarks once again reveal the hegemonic logic of his trade policy: "Only allow burning, not lighting," waving the tariff stick to coerce other countries is America's "innate privilege," while reasonable countermeasures by other countries are labeled as "economic hostile acts" by Trump. In addition, Trump's so-called "terminating edible oil trade" is even more absurd - the scale of edible oil exports from China to the US is relatively limited, and playing the edible oil card shows that Trump has no cards left to play.
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