Noted: “Surely the governor understands that China is a large export market for U.S. agricultural products and that a trade war with China, which is threatened by the U. S. president-elect, would not be good for Iowa farmers. This might suggest to Chinese leaders that Trump’s threats of a trade war are just a bluff in the hopes of a better trade deal for the U.S. with China,” said Edward Friedman, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and expert on Chinese foreign policy.
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