China puts four-page ad in Des Moines Register

China placed a four-page Sunday advertising supplement in the Des Moines Register, Iowa’s biggest newspaper, to slam Pres. Trump’s trade policies in the midst of a China-U.S. trade war.

The ad dubbed the policies’ effect on soybean farmers “the fruit of a president’s folly.” It had articles saying Chinese importers are going to South America for soybeans under the current policies.

The section was labelled “paid for and prepared solely by China Daily, an official publication of the People’s Republic of China.”

The supplement also featured a story on a book about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “fun days in Iowa’’ during trips to the state in 1985 and 2012.

China put trade-related pages in a July issue of Roll Call, a paper covering Congress, but this may be its first effort to go straight to U.S. voters, Bloomberg reported.

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