🇺🇸🇨🇳 China’s Purchases of US Soybeans Stall Despite Trade Truce

China’s purchases of American soybeans appear to have stalled, less than two weeks after the US touted a wide-ranging trade truce that signaled thawing relations between the world’s two biggest economies.

After a flurry of orders late last month — which were the first of this season — Chinese imports of US cargoes seem to have faltered, according to traders who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information. They said they were not aware of new shipments. The pause is fueling uncertainty over whether the biggest consumer of American soybeans will import as much as US President Donald Trump’s administration claims to expect.

The agreement with China is seen as crucial for providing relief to struggling American farmers, who have been hard-hit by inflation and high input costs. The Asian country has held off buying US soybeans for much of this season, hurting growers while giving Beijing a key bargaining chip during negotiations with Washington. The US trade with China was worth more than $12 billion last year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-12/china-s-purchases-of-us-soybeans-stall-despite-trade-truce

https://archive.ph/tzDeD

🇩🇪🇺🇦 German Chancellor Merz:

In a call today, I asked the Ukrainian President to ensure that young Ukrainian men do not return to Germany in growing numbers, but serve in their own country where they are needed.

🔗 Clash Report

🇪🇺 Just a month later and ChatControl is back!

Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes

The new proposal:

- total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU
- obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account
- minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!)

The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it

🔗 https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-through-the-back-door-breyer-warns-the-eu-is-playing-us-for-fools-now-theyre-scanning-our-texts-and-banning-teens/

🇺🇸🇻🇪 — For the second day in a row, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine have held consultations in the White House on a variety of options for military operations against Venezuela.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 — NEW: President Trump on Venezuela:

I’ve made up my mind [on Venezuela]. I can’t tell you what it would be.

@TabZLIVE

🇹🇹🤝🇺🇸 — Amidst ongoing tensions in the Caribbean, the US Marine Expeditionary Force and Trinidad & Tobago Defense Force will hold joint military exercises from November 16-21.

🇹🇹🇻🇪 — Trinidad & Tobago is located immediately off the coast of Venezuela from the northern and eastern directions.

🇺🇸‼️🇻🇪 A map of all potential military targets in Venezuela

📌 With the USS Gerald R. Ford CSG now inside SOUTHCOM, the U.S. could launch land strikes at any time

🇨🇳🇯🇵🇹🇼 China warned Japan of a "crushing" military defeat if it uses force to intervene over Taiwan.

"Should the Japanese side fail to draw lessons from history and dare to take a risk, or even use force to interfere in the Taiwan question, it will only suffer a crushing defeat against the steel-willed People's Liberation Army and pay a heavy price," said Chinese Defense Spokesman Jiang Binin in a statement.

🔗 Europa.com

🇬🇧 'Mountain' of rubbish dumped near River Cherwell

An investigation is underway after a mountain of waste has been illegally dumped on a field in Oxfordshire.

The Environment Agency says specialist officers are looking into the incident, where hundreds of tonnes of fly-tipped plastic rubbish was spotted on the floodplain close to the River Cherwell.

🔗 Basil

🇮🇹❗️🇧🇷🤡 — Politicians from the Italian Lega Nord party claim that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) was in Rome last month to negotiate billions of reais so that the Italian government would extradite two Brazilian citizens who are in the country, namely a congresswoman and a former advisor to Alexandre de Moraes (STF).

🇻🇪🇻🇪❌🇺🇸 — 🇻🇪 The dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, urged the peoples to rise up “against imperialism” and “its attempt to bring a war” to the Latin American and Caribbean region

“We must cultivate the permanent awareness and rebelliousness of the peoples. Of everyone. If we all rise up against the empire of evil and the Nazis, who could stand against us? […].

I, as a revolutionary, say: if all the conscious peoples of this America rise up against imperialism and its attempt to bring a war, who could stand against us? No one. Never, never, never.

The first thing Nazifascism did when it emerged in Europe, the first thing Adolf Hitler did, was to begin mocking the founding pacts of international law and start believing and claiming the preeminence of his power above international law, based on the invocation of an alleged ‘international legal exceptionalism.’”