Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    12 hours ago

    Its incredible just how the fast the US is falling from the world stage. Even Britain remained super relevant after the controlled demolition of their empire.

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      7 hours ago

      Britain kinda had to turn insular after the world wars. I don’t know what’s happening with America but it smells like hubris. It’s pretty worrying, too.

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        4 hours ago

        US will probably be more like France, a few decades of having wars in different parts of the world to pretend it’s maintaining an empire that doesn’t really exist anymore.