China Balancing Act A diplomatic spat between Seoul and Beijing has relations between these two East Asian neighbors quickly souring. Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping is turning up the heat on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kushida by mentioning the Japanese island of Okinawa and its supposed historical relationship with China. He referred to the as them as the Ryukyu Islands, a historically Chinee name. Okinawa is in a strategic location in the East China Sea and technically harder for Tokyo to defend. But all this saber rattling could be reduced. After three years of diplomatic tough talk, Beijing now says it wants to seek common ground with Australia and build a long-term relationship. After some initial pushback, it appears...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.