US farmers have become a political hot potato in the US-China trade war, with President Donald Trump accusing China of failing to follow through on a recent pledge to buy more US agricultural goods as part of a deal to re-start stalled trade talks – and China instructing state-run companies to stop buying from US farms after the president's latest tariff threat. This map explains why farmers are so important to the US president, and why agricultural purchases are a key bargaining chip for Beijing.
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By Kevin Allison,
Kevin Allison
Kevin Allison was a former Senior Editor for Signal. Based in Washington DC, he looks at how technology is reshaping global affairs. Kevin was also a Director in the Geo-Technology practice at Eurasia Group. Kevin holds degrees from the University of Missouri and from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria and a 2015 Miller Journalism Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to GZERO Media and Eurasia Group, Kevin was a journalist at Reuters and the Financial Times. He has lived in eight US states and has been an expat four times.
