Why China’s Economy Doesn’t Want American Corn Anymore | WSJ U.S. vs. China

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The U.S. produces more corn than any other crop, with American farmers selling $5.3 billion of it to China last year. But China has spent years courting other producers as it is relying more on Brazil and other Latin American countries. China is also exploring ways to become self-sufficient long-term through embracing new technology and better farming education.

WSJ explains why growing its own grains has been such a struggle for China and how it has been trying to wean itself off of its reliance on U.S. corn production.

0:00 China’s corn demand
1:01 China’s struggles
2:57 International partnerships
5:59 Self-sufficiency

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39 COMMENTS

  1. They are gonna poison our corn and make their corn tolerant to the poison . My pov. Total war will come. They hit everything, farming, water , electricity and even our social norms (tik tok). This will happen before the kinetic war.

  2. So the end result of telling the Chinese they are “evil” for what they are doing to a small Mulsim minority -the Uighurs, is that US farmers lose sales in the corn market, US farming prices fall, US farmers go bankrupt. Did it help the Uighurs? NO. What then was the point?

  3. The told us that Biden and the yammering of the paranoid political class would have repercussions. The only reason ZChina bought US agricultural products was out if convenience. Biden blathered and China grew their own wheat..corn, soybeans, cherries, apples. They cancelled American contracts and sank commodity prices across the board. It gets worse from here on out. Free trade demands friendship snd mutual respect. Saber rattling results in economic catastrophe. I would add that Trump is as stupid anti trade as Biden. You got one choice…RFK.

  4. Destabilizing the corn export market so American farmers go bankrupt and lose their family farmland to billionaire corporations like Bill Gates so he will be the only major player in the market when the trade opens up. Isn't that how Walmart pushed out the mom and pop grocery stores?

  5. They aren't telling you the real reason, which is why no American corn is eaten in Europe, roundup and ITS GMO! Even millions of Americans don't eat corn products anymore, we are going NON-GMO and USDA certified organic foods only.

  6. Brazil literally is destroying their land because of their methods of farming. It’s not going to be sustainable. Plus they’re literally wasting all the recourses that is on the land by burning it all to the ground. I like land clearing and understand its purpose, but Brazil keeps cutting stuff down because they keep destroying their land and don’t feel like fixing the soil after raping it if it’s nutrients. I love Brazil but we should stop buying their food, we shouldn’t support any company/country that cares so little about preserving what they have. I have a family member who owns a reforestation project down there and he’s shared lots of stories about how corrupt that country is. These people who own the massive corn/cow farms don’t care about Brazil considering the fact they’d rather go cut another acre of rainforest down than to take care of the acre that’s already cleared.

  7. The USA just needs to sever all ties with China. 200% tariffs on everything from China, no exceptions, tangible and intangibles, goods and labor.

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