China needs to buy oil/gas futures' contracts as cheaply as possible to honor new deal to buy a lot of petrol products in 2020 from U.S.... China economy grew very well in 2019 even with many tariffs in place by U.S.... Inflation in China in 2019 was lofty and above 4%... China has seen their hog herds cut massively by disease in 2019... China also needs to buy Ag contracts as cheaply as possible... U.S. Widespread flu cases just isn't isn't a headline to spread and instill panic... https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm Over 29 million U.S. flu cases seems like a lot... But it seems real...LJ