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China imported no soybeans from the U.S. for a second straight month in October even as total imports surged to a record high on purchases from South America, with buyers aiming to avert supply disruptions amid trade tensions with Washington.

Data from China’s General Administration of Customs on Thursday showed U.S. soybean imports in October fell to zero from 541,434 metric tons a year earlier.

The decline followed China’s imposition of high tariffs on U.S. soybeans earlier in the year and the depletion of previously harvested U.S. supplies, or old-crop beans. China is the world’s biggest soybean importer.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    10 days ago

    Nordic citizen here. As much as I agree with the sentiment, I’d happily pay more to have an unlubed dildo of consequence hypersonically delivered to the Kremlin.

    We can tiptoe around russia, hoping they’ll play nice any day now, or give a slap that won’t be forgotten.

    Lesson:
    Russia used to do these “mistaken navigation” into Turkish airspace all the time. Until turkey shot down an encroaching aircraft. Suddenly russian pilots got a lot better at navigation.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      10 days ago

      Russia only respects force.

      They will push and prod and poke and if you’re soft they get bolder and bolder. Like a school bully.

      But kick them in the nuts real hard once and they’ll back down

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    11 days ago

    It’s really disappointing that so many countries don’t help more. The average being only a tenth of Nordic countries per capita!

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    10 days ago

    While I gnash my teeth daily that the US isn’t doing more to support Ukraine, I do not believe for a moment that Europe will allow Ukraine to fall, because if Ukraine falls to Russia, along with all its resources and production capacity, Estonia is next. Armenia is next. Georgia is next. Latvia is next and all the other former USSR territories, and then Poland and the wealth of Europe will start looking real tasty to Putin.

    No NATO/EU country wants Ukraine to fall, and they will pour every resource into defending it if it becomes clear the US is no longer a player, and it may come to that depending on what happens in the next several years.

    They just think it would be nice if you know, the US could fucking chip in a little, being the wealthiest nation on Earth and apparently we have SOOOOO much money freed up since we decided to let poor people die and we’re not funding space missions or vaccines anymore.

    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      10 days ago

      No NATO/EU country wants Ukraine to fall, and they will pour every resource into defending it.

      They’re not showing any signs of doing as such.

      Honestly despite being an ocean away the united states has already chipped in a large amount of real aid. The EU, being rich countries themselves, should not be relying so heavily on a nation that was already on the brink of fascism.

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        10 days ago

        Oh I’m saying they’re sitting on their hands and expecting a US administration change and business to resume, but if it becomes clear Trump is never going to die and just be replaced by a continual cycle of more and more unhinged nationalists (As is quite likely) they will probably start throwing some actual funding at the problem.

  • verdi@feddit.orgEnglish
    81·
    11 days ago

    contributions = 1/x where x= distance to Russian borders + Support for the Iraqi invasion + Spying on EU leaders on behalf of the USA.