They’re drop shipping crop from the other countries right back to China.
Also they were doing the same thing with pigs from the US via their smithfield plants.
‘We’ aren’t the only game in town with ag anymore. Brazil, Argentina, etc all willing to sell to whoever wants to buy.
We’re not the “only game in town” but we’re still the biggest,
True. But, there isn’t remotely enough extra (or even quickly developable) hog production on the planet to make up for China’s shortfall. And, it’s not just China’s shortfall. Other countries have been hit too.