"unearthed a 2016 video in which Mr Walz told the farming policy outlet Agri-Pulse that the US and China did not need to have an 'adversarial relationship'."
extra context: a nuance that most people are going to miss here is that this was an ag publication. very few outsiders realize how absolutely pivotal the China trade relationship is to commodity ag
Walz knows farmers and if he was talking to Agri-Pulse about this in 2016 it would be to reassure them "I don't think the current rhetoric means that it's going to be seen as a national security necessity to blow up your number one biggest soybean buyer," lmao
(there was a psychologically sticky few years for ag because farmers en masse are super Republican but Trump's trade policies on China were extremely punishing for commodities, they just had to grit their teeth and cope with a lot of cognitive dissonance for a hot minute)
"unearthed a 2016 video in which Mr Walz told the farming policy outlet Agri-Pulse that the US and China did not need to have an 'adversarial relationship'."extra context: a nuance that most people are going to miss here is that this was an ag publication. very few outsiders realize how absolutely pivotal the China trade relationship is to commodity ag
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