Chinese Trade Officials Tour Miss.

[Joanne98]

Source: AP

Chinese Trade Officials Tour Miss.

JACKSON, Miss. — A delegation of high-ranking Chinese trade officials toured Mississippi on Monday as part of their trip to the United States to purchase billions of dollars in goods ranging from cotton to aircraft.

China plans to spend as much as $500 million on cotton, one of Mississippi's top agricultural exports, said Meredith Allen, vice president of marketing for Greenwood-based Staple Cotton Cooperative Association.

Staple Cotton, which sometimes appears as Staplcotn, is the largest cotton marketing cooperative in the U.S., representing more than 21,000 farm accounts and dealing in some 4 million bales annually, according to its Web site.

Gov. Haley Barbour told the group that he expects trade between Mississippi and China to continue to grow in the coming years, adding that China is a major buyer of furniture, agriculture products and other goods.



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Haley is neglecting to say that MISS is the biggest prison slave labor camp in the country!

[Deja Q]

1. But it doesn't necessarily follow that the Chinese are there to see a prison camp!

What would they learn?

What would they want to teach us?

I think it's just about trade.

[Selatius]

2. In the past, American textile factories used to turn that cotton into clothes

Today, those textile factories are in China. With things different now, cotton growers had no choice but to entertain members of the Communist Party of China.

[Joanne98]

3. Isn't that sad.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=114&topic_id=25066&mesg_id=25066\

You need to read my other thread.

[OnyxCollie]

4. Have them try the wheat gluten.

It's delicious.

[kurth]

5. The U.S. has become just a raw materials supplier to China

just like a colony in the old days.

[xchrom]

6. strike up the Twilight Zone music.

it's eerie isn't it?

[Vinca]

7. Is there anywhere in China where cotton can be grown?

If there is, it's only a matter of time before the U.S. cotton farmers go the way of the wheat gluten industry.