Give and Take

When American farmers take delight in their recent bumper harvests of soybean and cotton, they perhaps do so without the knowledge that on the other side of the Pacific, Chinesefarmers are suffering. They suffer because much of these excessivecrops are finding their way into the Chinese market, driving downdomestic produce prices, reducing Chinese farmers’ income andcreating an imbalance in China’s agricultural sector. While the U.S. Government complains that their manufacturingindustry i…