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How Xi Jinping Plans to Fill China’s ‘Rice Bowl’

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The Risks of Trade in China

Economist Wen Dong-jong says trade carries its own risks. China is so big that even if you have a 10% shortage for the wheat and rice production, there's no other countries can quickly produce this massive quantity. Some of America's red estates represented by Congress's biggest China hawks rely on the country to buy billions of dollars in corn, soybeans,. And I think from the Chinese perspective it's useful to have that kind of sub-argaining chip.

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