>>9163856 Chinese Communist Party: Making Threats (pb)

“To counteract the abuse of anti-China litigation over COVID-19, Beijing is already preparing to take the necessary punishment measures against some members of the US Congress, the state of Missouri, and relevant individuals and entities, sources told Global Times”

https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1260747852055293955

CHINA and MISSOURI

“Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods in the largest such takeover of a U.S. business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land.”

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/06/18/missouri-smithfield-china/2434847/

“Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods shutters two more meat processing plants in Missouri and Wisconsin after massive coronavirus outbreak closed South Dakota factory, threatening the American food supply chain”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8223423/Chinese-owned-Smithfield-Foods-shutters-two-meat-processing-plants-Missouri-Wisconsin.html

“Smithfield CEO Larry Pope offered assurances that there was no connection between Shaunghui and the Chinese government. The U.S. Treasury Department allowed the purchase to go forward. Yet, just a year later, the Center for Investigative Reporting discovered that the CHINESE government did have a connection to Shaunghui. The COMMUNIST PARTY supported the Smithfield purchase with “preferential policy, as well as investment,” Zhang Taixi, the government-appointed president of WH Group (the corporate name Shaunghui adopted in 2014), told CIR.”

http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/02/22/china-syngenta-smithfield

Smithfield Foods: Chinese-owned pork producer qualifies for money under Trump's farm bailout

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-chinese-pork-producer-federal-bailout-20181023-story.html

Missouri's exports to China (2016/7 data)

Growth in Services Exports to China: 410%

Growth in Services Exports to Rest of World: 56%

Growth in Goods Exports to China: 20%

Growth in Goods Exports to Rest of World: 10%

https://www.uschina.org/reports/us-exports/missouri

will allow Chinese investors to pump millions of dollars into a MU research company called "Nanova, Inc."

https://www.komu.com/news/investors-sign-agreement-with-columbia-for-chinese-investment

“With the help of the Missouri Small Business and Technology Development Centers (MO SBTDC), Nanova Inc. was incorporated in 2007 by Dr. Hao Li, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri's College of Engineering”

https://sbdc.missouri.edu/news/nanova-inc.-columbia-3620