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BumRushDaShow

(151,663 posts) Sun Apr 27, 2025, 01:26 PM Sunday

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

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

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

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Bessent says he doesn't know if Trump has spoken with China's Xi (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP

Bla bla bla. Bla bla. Nt BootinUp Sunday #1

Bessent, what a lying POS, he also will go down in history zorbasd Sunday #2

Well said!! flamingdem Monday #11

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

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

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

Well they should. But the question is: ananda Sunday #8

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

What he really means: bluescribbler Sunday #4

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

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

China: "没有" SouthBayDem Monday #12

BootinUp

(49,718 posts)

1. Bla bla bla. Bla bla. Nt

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 01:35 PM

Sunday

zorbasd

(394 posts)

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

Reply to BootinUp (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 01:40 PM

Sunday

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

flamingdem

(40,398 posts)

11. Well said!!

Reply to zorbasd (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 12:17 AM

Monday

The financial scions need to stop giving him a pass.

Irish_Dem

(69,082 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 02:03 PM

Sunday

They must be getting nervous.

ananda

(31,598 posts)

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

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 02:32 PM

Sunday

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

Irish_Dem

(69,082 posts)

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

Reply to ananda (Reply #5)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 02:38 PM

Sunday

I think the approval bad numbers are scaring them.

ananda

(31,598 posts)

8. Well they should. But the question is:

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #7)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 04:03 PM

Sunday

Do they care?

Irish_Dem

(69,082 posts)

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

Reply to ananda (Reply #8)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 04:07 PM

Sunday

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

(2,328 posts)

4. What he really means:

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 02:23 PM

Sunday

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

SunSeeker

(55,624 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 02:36 PM

Sunday

republianmushroom

(19,690 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 08:18 PM

Sunday

SouthBayDem

(32,610 posts)

12. China: "没有"

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2025, 04:36 PM

Monday

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

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