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Trump stood frozen. Moments after revealing a deal to send more than $10 billion in heavy weaponry to Taiwan, Beijing scrapped a contract for 132,000 tonnes of U.S. white wheat - quietly, without warning. The move came swift, cutting through diplomatic silence like dry thunder. One gesture answered another, neither loud nor flashy, yet sharp enough to feel. Trade bent where politics stepped. No grand speeches, just numbers pulled from the table. A harvest once promised now rerouted elsewhere. Power speaks in pauses sometimes. What wasn’t said weighed heavier than the grain itself. On December 17, the Trump team revealed plans to send weapons to Taiwan - valued at $11.1 billion - an unprecedented figure in American arms deals with the island. While past administrations moved quietly, this one chose scale; the package exceeded every prior transaction by a wide margin. Money flowed where policy once hesitated, drawing attention across diplomatic channels. Reactions followed predictable lines but carried new weight behind them. The deal wasn't just large - it shifted perceptions of what such transactions could become. This shipment holds eighty-two HIMARS units - long-range precision tools - alongside four hundred twenty tactical missiles, sixty M109A7 howitzers, plus assorted gear spanning land, sea, and sky operations. Washington says it’s about helping Taipei uphold defense readiness; yet the act clashes sharply with the One China policy, disrupts mutual understandings forged in past U.S.-China statements, while crossing clear lines into domestic matters. Just under a day after word spread about arms deals, USDA quietly confirmed China scrapped its entire purchase - 132,000 tons of U.S. white wheat - in a midnight update. This deal - once set to become the biggest China-U.S. wheat trade of 2025 - collapsed without warning, stunning officials who’d only recently toasted its progress. Markets reacted fast; Chicago wheat futures slumped to their weakest point in two months. #BTCVSGOLD #ETH

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