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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.

  • tirednapstablook@lemmings.worldEnglish
    019·
    9 hours ago

    If Ukraine loses, what would that mean for the countries that did help?

    Would it have just been a waste of money for them that also resulted in more deaths for Ukrainians? Yeah, Russians died too, but was that worth it?

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      The Russian economy is collapsing now. So there is no way Ukraine will lose this war.
      But supporting Ukraine will help them get their territory back, and shorten the war.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      7 hours ago

      Yes.

      Every dead Russian man of military age isn’t available to attack my country.

      They’ll use their future indoctrinated Putin Youth for that, but it takes a decade for them to grow up still.

      • tirednapstablook@lemmings.worldEnglish
        116·
        7 hours ago

        I see. Give Ukrainians weapons so they fight a hopeless war while Western troops do drills.

        Maybe the Ukrainians would have been better off if they just surrendered. They don’t seem to be getting much out of being cannon fodder for the West.