Larry Johnson on Trump China Soybean Claims
After returning from Beijing, Trump announced that China had consented to acquiring American soybeans. Yet this claim comes without any specified amounts, without binding agreements, and without forming a real pact. According to ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson, China procures all its needed soybeans from Brazil already. The country had been purchasing from America solely to extend a favor to the
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A guest told me that one of the deals that Trump reached in China was for China to buy more American soybeans. Well, the problem now is that with the shortage with fertilizers, especially if this continues, the farmers don't even have enough fertilizers to be able to produce the soybeans that China apparently wants to buy from the U.S. based on the deal. So everything is just not going in its favor across all the fronts. Well, in this deal, China didn't say, yeah, we're going to buy 25 million bushels. they didn't say anything like that at all they said that's everything's preliminary basically we're willing to consider buying some of your soybeans provided all these other areas of concern that we've raised are taken care of but we're able to buy all the soybeans we need right now from Brazil it's the US farmer that needs the Chinese purchase China doesn't need it China was doing it in the past basically to help the United States out and I think they're now in a very different mindset they don't want to help the United States at all other than telling the United States lift your blockade, get the hell out of the Middle East
