Adam Savit

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@Adam_Savit

Director, China Policy Initiative at @a1policy // Fmr Sr Advisor for National Security at @USDA // JQA Fellow at @CommonSenseScty // Fmr President, @DCLogCabin

Washington, DC Joined January 2024

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Adam Savit @Adam_Savit Oct 28

“Syngenta is not merely a Swiss company with a Chinese shareholder. It is an instrument of the Chinese state now run by a longtime executive of its Chinese parent company.”

My latest in @WashTimes 👇
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www.washingtontimes.com Treat China-owned Syngenta as a national security problem On Aug. 1, Syngenta, one of the world's largest agricultural seed and crop protection companies replaced its chief executive.

Adam Savit @Adam_Savit Oct 27

Syngenta wants a $66B+ Hong Kong IPO, pitching itself as a biotech company. Same owner: Sinochem, a Chinese SOE. Treasury just proposed curbing U.S. investment in Chinese biotech. Investors and regulators should connect those dots.
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americafirstpolicy.com Chokepoints: How to Counter China’s State Control of American Agriculture – AFPI For over twenty years, the federal government has continuously designated American agriculture as “critical infrastructure.” The 2003 National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical...

Adam Savit @Adam_Savit Oct 13

1/ For a decade, Syngenta’s answer to questions about Chinese ownership was an American face: Jeff Rowe, a fifth-generation Illinois farmer. On Aug 1, he was replaced by Hengde Qin, a 22-year veteran of Syngenta’s Chinese state-owned parent. 🧵

Adam Savit @Adam_Savit Sep 24

Truce extended to Jan 10. Beijing wanted the rest of the term.

Shorter isn't weaker, it's accountability. China is at 2/3 on its rare earth commitments.

Bigger structural problem: their success depends on overproduction, ours on closing the deficit.

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Adam Savit @Adam_Savit Sep 3

Tariff walls don't make Chinese overcapacity disappear. They reroute it.

China can't replace the US market, so it finds other doors: Mexico, India, Vietnam.

"The Great Transshipment Scam" is the right name. Rules of origin matter as much as tariff rates

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