Bessent says he doesn't know if Trump has spoken with China's Xi

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

April 27, 2025, 11:03 AM


Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Donald Trump's negotiating strategy on trade deals but said he didn't know whether Trump was speaking directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

"I don't know if President Trump has spoken with President Xi. I know they have a very good relationship and a lot of respect for each other, but again, I think that the Chinese will see that this high tariff level is unsustainable for their business model," Bessent told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz.

Bessent also offered a time frame of "months" to hammer out a trade deal with China, but suggested "good behavior" from other countries engaged in negotiations could keep the tariffs from remaining high.

"A trade deal can take months, but an agreement in principle and, the good behavior and staying within the parameter of the deal by our trading partners can keep the tariffs from ratcheting back to the maximum level."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bessent-trump-spoken-chinas-xi/story?id=121201271

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This is what happens when you run a government with nothing but "talking points".

[BootinUp]

1. Bla bla bla. Bla bla. Nt

[zorbasd]

2. Bessent, what a lying POS, he also will go down in history

as one of the architects for the collapse of US economic power...

[flamingdem]

11. Well said!!

The financial scions need to stop giving him a pass.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Trump crime syndicate captains all over the Sunday morning talk shows lying up a storm.

They must be getting nervous.

[ananda]

5. They should be, but they've been lying like rugs for years.

And the msm has not exactly been bastions of truth either.

[Irish_Dem]

7. But they were hitting it hard this morning on the talk shows.

I think the approval bad numbers are scaring them.

[ananda]

8. Well they should. But the question is:

Do they care?

[Irish_Dem]

9. Some of them must care or they would not have hit the talk shows this morning so hard.

But I don't think Trump cares at all.
He is going to steal a vast sum of money from the US taxpayer, this is all he cares about.

[bluescribbler]

4. What he really means:

What he really means is that TSF has not spoken with Xi. Otherwise, we'd all know about it.

[SunSeeker]

6. Xi has ZERO respect for Trump. He's playing Trump like a fiddle. nt

[republianmushroom]

10. Either the dude is lying or incompetent, one or the other, or possibly both.

[SouthBayDem]

12. China: "没有"

China on Monday once again denied that it is in talks to resolve its tariff war with the United States, after a series of statements by President Donald Trump and his aides suggesting trade negotiations were underway.

“Let me make it clear one more time that China and the U.S. are not engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a press conference.

Guo also appeared to reject Trump’s claim, in an interview with TIME last week, that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called him.

“As far as I know, there have not been any calls between the two presidents recently,” the spokesman said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trump-xi-tariffs-china-bessent.html