U.S.-China Agricultural Cooperation and the "Decoupling" Turmoil: A Double Game Behind the Scenes
Recently, Sino-US agricultural cooperation has once again become the focus of attention. The seventh meeting of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Agriculture, co-chaired by the ministers of agriculture and rural affairs of the mainland and the U.S. secretary of agriculture, marked the relaunch of the agricultural cooperation mechanism. At the same time, China bought nearly 300,000 tons of soybeans from the United States in less than 24 hours, which seems to ring a harmonious bell for agricultural exchanges between the two countries.
However, things are not as good as they should be. At this moment, the U.S. government reported a ban on Chinese batteries, limiting the ban to Pentagon purchases. This begs the question of whether the U.S. and China are an agricultural feast of cooperation or a political double game.
On the one hand, the U.S. welcome to Chinese soybeans shows a win-win situation for the market. China needs hundreds of millions of tons of soybeans every year, and the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and other countries are the world's major soybean exporters, and this cooperation seems to be a normal behavior based on market demand and reality.
On the other hand, the U.S. government has imposed a ban on Chinese batteries in the name of so-called "national security", once again revealing the double standards of the U.S. political elite's China policy. It is incomprehensible that they welcome Chinese purchases while targeting Chinese companies on far-fetched grounds.
Behind this is the confusion of the American political elite's perception of China. The frequent promotion of the "China threat theory" in order to obtain more budget has led to the rigidity and inaccuracy of China policy. In the era of globalization, the decoupling of China and the United States is impractical. American companies and farmers have long been mired in cooperation with China, while political elites have reached a dead end in their shouting of "decoupling and breaking chains."
China needs to remain calm and rational, and take appropriate countermeasures to defend its rights and interests. At the same time, we also hope that the US political elite will return to rationality, face up to the complexity of China-US relations, and avoid further escalating tensions. Only through cooperation and rational dialogue can we achieve true mutual benefit and win-win results, so that the ship of agricultural cooperation in the era of globalization can move forward steadily.