Trade Trump considers abandoning China cooking oil due to soy problem
In the trade conflict with China, US President Donald Trump can imagine a retaliatory measure in the form of a ban on Chinese cooking oil. The USA could "easily" produce it itself, he claimed on his Truth Social platform.
14.10.2025, 23:08
SDA
The People's Republic is deliberately refusing to buy US soybeans and is therefore harming farmers. It is precisely these farmers who form one of Trump's core constituencies.
China has not been buying soy from US farmers for some time now. This means that US farmers have lost their main customer. Meanwhile, the United States is cutting China off from important cutting-edge technology in the computer chip sector, which the Chinese need for the development of artificial intelligence.
According to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trump will speak with China's President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in South Korea at the end of October. The meeting is still on the agenda, he said recently in an interview with US broadcaster Fox Business.
