{"id":260794,"date":"2026-01-31T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260794\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:58:15","slug":"trump-affordability-crisis-bessent-kill-line-query-goes-viral-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260794\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Affordability Crisis: Bessent \u2018Kill-Line\u2019 Query Goes Viral in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  I\u2019m   <a href=\"https:\/\/bloomberg.com\/authors\/AOVvFQ33Ibo\/jacob-gu\" title=\"Jacob Gu - Editor | Bloomberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">    Jacob Gu  <\/a>  , a China news reporter in Houston. Today we\u2019re looking at narratives about the US economy getting attention in Chinese social media. Send us feedback and tips to   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-01-30\/mailto:ecodaily@bloomberg.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">    ecodaily@bloomberg.net  <\/a>  . And if you aren\u2019t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/new-economy-daily?source=ecointro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">    here  <\/a>  .<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was at a loss last week when a reporter with China\u2019s largest state-run media conglomerate pressed him on something called \u201cthe kill line\u201d \u2014 a phrase that seemed to mean little to anyone else monitoring the press briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Jacob Gu , a China news reporter in Houston. Today we\u2019re looking at narratives about the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,275,607,15583,25833,1951,219,866,29284,13693,111,139,69,1414,33522,2025],"class_list":{"0":"post-260794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-economic-growth","13":"tag-economics","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-federal-reserve","16":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","17":"tag-houston","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-social-media","22":"tag-tax-cuts","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}