An ag economist says the recent strain on U.S. – Chinese relations, because of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, hasn’t stopped the trading partner from buying U.S. ag products.

But the University of Missouri’s Ben Brown is urging caution…

“We’re encouraging China to diversify and build up their own [grain] production,” he said. “Right now, we’re playing this card of ‘you need us’; it might not be that far down the road that they don’t need us, at least not to the degree they do now.”

Brown says the relationship has been waning for several years.

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