If you don't buy soybeans, you will retaliate. China will not accept Trump's threats and proactively state its conditions. If you can't do it, you will be exempted from negotiations.

China does not buy U.S. soybeans, Trump threatens to retaliate, China does not eat this set, actively enlighten conditions, if the U.S. does not do, everything is untalkable.

On October 14, local time, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Chinese buyers do not buy U.S. soybeans was a so-called "hostile act", which "caused difficulties" to U.S. soybeans.

However, Trump's retaliation action is considered to be "a small thunderstorm". there are U.S. media reports that Trump's "Chinese eating oil" may refer to imported waste eating oil from China, this commodity is generally collected from the catering industry for non-continuous consumption of old oil, i.e. "grass oil". it exported to the United States, mainly used in the manufacture of biofuels.

Although in 2024, China's exports of waste edible oil to the United States set a new record with 1.27 million tons, accounting for 43% of China's total exports of waste edible oil that year, the value was only US $1.1 billion, and the scale was comparable to more than US $10 billion. Soybeans cannot be compared. More importantly, in 2025, the export volume of China's waste edible oil to the United States has already dropped sharply. The export volume in the first eight months alone was only about 290,000 tons, a sharp drop of 65% year-on-year.

In fact, because the production of biofuels is expensive and the industry is small, the U.S. government has not paid much attention to it.Therefore, Trump's retaliation measures have no practical impact on China.If Trump wants to threaten China with ending waste oil, it is destined to be in vain.

Some analysts believe that Trump's retaliatory measures transmit two clear signals.The first is that the United States has no more cards to play in the trade game with China, and can only execute trade blackmail against China in areas such as discarding oil and other painless things.The second is that the United States wants to show the outside world its strong and hard stance against China, on the one hand is to use this to calm the public opinion pressure caused by the stagnation of soybean trade, and on the other hand is to show that the United States is determined to fight a trade war.This move will undoubtedly escalate the trade tension.

In this regard, China's Embassy in the United States and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs continued to express China's position in detail.On the 14th, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Xi Jinping, in his speech at the public event, stressed the importance ofining stability in China-U.S. relations. He said that from past lessons, tariff war and trade war can not be fought, but will only be defeated.

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Swed also responded to a routine press conference on the 15th, saying that when dealing with the Sino-U.S. economic and trade issue, China's position is consistent and clear. tariff wars and trade wars do not meet the interests of either side, and the two sides should consult and resolve the issue on the basis of equality, respect and reciprocity.

From the point of view of the Ambassador Xi Jinping and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China’s attitude has been very clear. If the United States is determined to fight a trade war, then China will be accompanied by the end. But if the United States wants dialogue and consultation, China will not close the door to negotiations. In addition, in the statement, China has been proactively giving the United States the condition to clarify, one is to temporarily lay the cliff and stop pressure on China’s limits. Second is to solve their concerns through dialogue on the basis of equality, respect and reciprocity.

As the most important bilateral relationship in the world, China and the United States have not only broad common interests but also a wide space for cooperation. If tensions cannot be reduced, it will inevitably affect the development of the two countries, not the well-being of the two peoples, nor the expectations of the whole world. As Ambassador Xi Jinping said, China and the United States can fully work together to tackle the growing global challenges and build a community of human destiny together.