Trade War Hits Environment Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research reported that the Amazon suffered a surge in deforestation during the past few months, and researchers at Michigan State University have identified the U.S.-China trade war as the cause. By switching its soybean purchases from the U.S. to Brazil, China has created a shift in demand that incentivized expansion of soybean production into the rainforest. Moreover, the researchers say that the outsized demand has also undermined the policies in Argentina and Paraguay. Rather than being subject to the differential export tax payment or sold to domestic crushers, Argentina’s soybeans flowed across the border into Brazil and were then loaded onto ships destined...