{"id":864315,"date":"2026-09-29T04:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864315\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T04:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T04:36:18","slug":"china-flaunts-purchasing-power-with-soybean-buys-ahead-of-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864315\/","title":{"rendered":"China flaunts purchasing power with soybean buys ahead of US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/commodities\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commodities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Booked volume for 2026 up more than fourfold from last year, lifting prices<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260928 China soybeans\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Workers transport imported soybean products at a port in Nantong, China,\u00a0in 2018. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>IORI KAWATE<\/p>\n<p>September 29, 2026 06:25 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">WASHINGTON &#8212; China has been increasing purchases of U.S. soybeans, demonstrating its influence on American farmers in the run-up to the midterm congressional elections in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commodities Booked volume for 2026 up more than fourfold from last year, lifting prices Workers transport imported soybean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2740,28,342010,144,101,364600,145297,5568,222031,101088,25],"class_list":["post-864315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ahead","tag-business","tag-buys","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-flaunts","tag-midterms","tag-power","tag-purchasing","tag-soybean","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}