China seeks treatment as a market economy, and yet its top-down policies such as the Textile Industry Development Plan reveal the extent to which it will take nonmarket measures to advance its industrial dominance. China Risks Bilateral Relations The suggestion by Chinese official Ni Hongxing that his government may take measures such as imposing antidumping duties and more restrictive nontariff barriers on soybean imports (see Oilseeds Highlights above) in order promote greater self-sufficiency of the oilseed may be the straw that breaks the bilateral camel’s back. Support by average Americans for trade generally, and particularly with China, is already declining. Agriculture represents one of the few sectors where there has been broad s...