A report by Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, was quoted in a March 2, 2019, editorial in the Omaha World-Herald called "Understand these long-term factors shaping China's demand for ag imports." The CARD report is titled, "Update on Iowa Farmland Market & U.S.-China Trade War" and can be found on the CARD website, https://www.card.iastate.edu/
Zhang also did an interview about the US-China trade negotiation with Radio Sputnik World Service Moscow March 4.
"So there is general interest by the Chinese to expand and maintain the relationship of between United States and China and agricultural exports is one critical thing. What China probably wants to do is, China also feels they are limited in terms of the ability to buy more high-tech machinery stuff that currently they cannot do due to national security reasons."