Argentina in superpower duel as China buys soybeans, US dangles billions

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20251008 Chinese rail wagons

A harvesting machine works on a soybean plantation in San Andres de Giles, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in May 2025. © Reuters

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TOKYO -- A day after U.S. soybean farmers bemoaned China's latest purchase of the crop from Argentina late last month, the Chinese Embassy in Buenos Aires quietly revealed the delivery of 90 railway grain wagons to the Latin American country.

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