The CEO of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture says he is optimistic China and the United States can keep a civil trading relationship.
“They need our products,” says McKinney. “They like and want our products and I’d hate for this to turn into something from the 1970s where there was a grain embargo or something like that.”
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will be in China this week and is expected to talk areas of potential cooperation between the two countries.