I really doubt that the US can say it got the deal of the century if China buys large quantities american beef or soybean. What everyone wants is open markets.

I really doubt that the US can say it got the deal of the century if China buys large quantities american beef or soybean. What everyone wants is open markets. No dumping sponsored by chinese government, enforcement of IP protection laws and many other things would ideally be part of the deal but I believe the market access is the primary issue and a deal could be stroke with that alone. The demand to make large purchase was to stop further tariffs and I'm not surprised China didn't fell for it.