{"id":10925,"date":"2025-05-12T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10925"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:22:31","slug":"neither-the-us-or-china-wants-to-be-decoupled-us-treasury-secretary-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10925","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Neither the US or China wants to be decoupled,&#8221; US treasury secretary says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmaktjr5j002q3b6m8tj2ofr0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reiterated that the US does not want to economically decouple from China, but seeks more \u201cbalance\u201d in trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmakucxst00043b6mfhkvs0pt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\u201cThe consensus from both delegations is neither side wants to be decoupled, and what have occurred with these very high tariffs\u2026was an equivalent of an embargo, and neither side wants that. We do want trade. We want more balance in trade,\u201d he said at a Monday press conference in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmakubhm900013b6msaxr8cmi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Last week, Bessent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2025\/05\/06\/politics\/negotiations-trade-china-trump\">told Fox News<\/a>: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to decouple; what we want is fair trade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has reiterated that the US does not want to economically decouple from China, but seeks more \u201cbalance\u201d in trade. \u201cThe consensus from both delegations is neither side wants to be decoupled, and what have occurred with these very high tariffs\u2026was an equivalent of an embargo, and neither side wants that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":10926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3501,3502],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-scott-bessent","tag-us-and-china-tax-tariff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10927,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions\/10927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}