Reuters just reported that Vice President Xi Jinping will visit The White House on February 14, and then he will visit Iowa http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/24/us-usa-china-xi-idUSTRE80N06E20120124. If I were him and about to undertake the very big job of leading China, I think that's where I would go. I would be thinking of the center of U.S. power and diplomacy and what they might mean for Asia and China. But, I'd also be thinking of my country's boundless need for raw materials and chief among them, I would think about food. Specifically, I would wonder where all the affordable pork would be coming from, and then I would turn my attention to Iowa and all that number 2 yellow corn just waiting to be exported.
Because if I were him, I would have paid attention when the Chinese agricultural economist types announced last week,that China is quickly approaching the red line limits of the farmland the country needs to be able to grow enough food.... And then I would wonder where the corn for the pigs for the pork would be coming from...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203735304577166652002366514.html
And then, I would decide to go to Iowa or Illinois or Missouri or South America.... Or may be all of them.
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