China’s economic slowdown may have a direct negative impact on the volume of copper or crude oil it imports, but does this have a similar effect on its imports of soybeans?These days, an attempt to analyze what lies ahead for financial or commodity markets in 2016 is bound to refer to China in the first paragraph if not the very first sentence. As it rose to become the world’s second-largest economy during the past decade, China’s growing demand for imported energy and raw materials was one of the main factors that supported the long bull market in commodities. The world came to depend on a Chinese economy in which its gross domestic product (GDP) had increased an average 10 percent annually for nearly 30 years. Thus when China recently ann...