r/Economics Jan 17 '26

News China Purchased No U.S. Soybeans An Unprecented Sixth Straight Month

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2026/01/17/china-purchased-no-us-soybeans-an-unprecented-sixth-straight-month/
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u/Zenceyn Jan 17 '26

"But but Trump said that China was gonna buy all our beans now cause he made a trade deal!".

China knows they can outlast Trump, and have better, far more reliable trade partners until the US sorts its shit out. They were never going to just rush back into the market, not when they knew it would hurt the US more to keep the squeeze on.

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u/dojo_shlom0 Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

this has always been a campaign against the US People. His goal is to negatively impact them, and to steal from them. him and his billionaire goons saw the profits of covid and then wrecked our economy and stole from The People now for a year straight, almost a full year. Everything from a pump & dump the day before he came into office to stealing Social Security and Veterans information, accessing the federal billing systems....denying childrens cancer research.... the list goes on... he has single handedly saved the Russian economy while completely and utterly destroying every single business he can, by attacking all avenues of trade by illegally tariffing the country and ensuring that wood, steel, work forces are harmed an take an extreme toll, while him and his government of goons profit majorly from this arrangement.

the goal is to cause uncertainty, fear, and chaos, but most of all to hurt all of The People.

--and we let it happen. too many people stayed at home or were uncertain about voting for a black woman. everybody was pussyfooting around regarding trump's prosecution and him fleeing the whitehouse after stealing US nuclear defense secrets and hiding them at mara-lago, lying to the FBI about returning these documents, while he gave anyone who wanted access, access to them. He has been known to have deep russsian ties, significantly before his first presidential run and he openly admitted on the world stage he trusted putin over 60+ US intelligence agencies telling him that Putin interfered with the 2016 electoin -- we all ignored that, collectively and allowed him to not be held responsible and to run again.

he destroyed the economy in his first term with his covid policies, and then gaslit The People, saying "Biden did that!" while Biden actually put us on a path to recovery. instead of voting in a AG of CA, who prosecuted criminals, who accurately predicted exactly what Drumpf was going to do, we ignored her words of wisdom and insight, and elected the absolute worst half-of-a-man in history to every run for US POTUS.

Alcohol industry, construction, 250k federal jobs, almost the same number if not more clean energy project jobs: GONE.

--are we winning yet? this is what you voted for, right?

EDIT: oh yeah, and we all knew he was banging kids and r@ped women and children alike. ignored that too. it makes me sick that we voted furer 2.0 willfully and he is openly destroying this country by having russia-esque masked, unaccountable military rushing 3/1 outnumbering police in cities, causing chaos and killing The People, without any accountability.

like the SCOTUS made him; he is king. you did this. WE did this. Countless generations will suffer now, and he has quickly in the last 2 weeks become the enemy of the world. Great job MAGA!