The U.S. is focusing on agriculture as a means to reduce the trade deficit and thereby help to solve its own domestic problem of overproduction of agricultural products. It seeks to drop this hot potato in the hands of some trade opponents.
美國所以挑中農業，一方面想藉此減輕巨額的貿易逆差，一方面則希望解決她國內農產品生產過剩的問題，而將這個「燙手山芋」丟到一些貿易對手國的手中。