China has a defense against Trump’s trade war. A great wall of pork.
Beijing’s tariffs on U.S. farm goods will have little short-term impact on Chinese consumers — making it ideal for inflicting political pain on Trump, analysts say.
Chinese people love pork. They ate about 57 million metric tons of pork last year — just over half of the global total — and the pork section at Xinfadi, Beijing’s largest wholesale market, is so huge it occupies its own building.
The air in the hall here is thick with the sickly sweet smell of flesh and the thunk of heavy metal choppers cleaving ribs and trimming fat.
