China PNTR and American Agriculture

Tom Lehman TLehman at lor.net
Fri May 5 15:32:24 PDT 2000


Charles---Out and out corporate managed trade has the potential to be a disaster for us and the Chinese people too.

The whole agricultural deal with China doesn't add up, as I have mentioned in earlier posts. Although reports of pollution, lack of sanitary sewage, water treatment and water quality control ring true for the Chinese cities. That doesn't necessarily reflect on Chinese agriculture which seems to be in pretty healthy shape and could do much better with only minor technical improvements as noted by the USDA.

Is China planning a high tech hyper industrialization at the expense of Chinese agriculture?

Tom

Charles Brown wrote:


> >>> Tom Lehman <uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu> 05/04/00 10:54AM >>>
> I had an interesting little chat this morning with an editor/journalist
> of a respected Ohio farm weekly newspaper. This gentleman tells me that
> it wouldn't surprise him if China buys American agricultural products
> and then turns around and sells them back to us at a higher price than
> they paid for them.
>
> ___________
>
> CB: Is us that dumb ?
>
> CB



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