Thanks to the Chinese market, unsustainable supply chains in Southeast Asia just won't go away.
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Sukanto Tanoto beamed as he shook Xi Jinping’s hand. It was 2015, and the fact that Tanoto — an Indonesian billionaire who was born to Chinese immigrants — had been invited to attend the conference in Hainan, China, was something of an honor. Only two other overseas Chinese entrepreneurs were reportedly included in the discussion, which centered on regional economic integration and financial cooperation around the then-novel Belt and Road Initiative.
Tanoto had worked hard for his invit
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Agriculture has traditionally been a fruitful area for China-U.S. cooperation, dating back to the two countries’ resumption of diplomatic relations in the 1970s. Now it is just another area marked by Sino-American distrust, as Washington hunts Chinese agriscience “spies” and Beijing races to reduce reliance on U.S. farm exports.
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