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by OldHand2018 2773 days ago
> A trade war which the US is winning strongly.

If you're wondering about the American soybean farmers that China has targeted as a response, you'll see that they are... simply looking at the commodities futures markets and making rational economic decisions [1]. I'm sure that this is not at all what China was hoping to accomplish.

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-soybeans-chin...

The bags farmers are using are not new technology, they have been around since the 1990s: https://extension.purdue.edu/article/6963