{"id":58171,"date":"2025-08-11T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58171\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:56:11","slug":"bessent-qa-china-is-most-imbalanced-economy-in-modern-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58171\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent Q&#038;A: China is most &#8216;imbalanced&#8217; economy in modern history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">US treasury secretary expects trade issues to be finished by October<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"Bessent Interview 2025-08\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">In an exclusive interview with Nikkei, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent\u00a0stressed the importance of rebalancing his country&#8217;s current account deficit. (Photo by Kosuke Takami)<\/p>\n<p>TAKESHI KAWANAMI<\/p>\n<p>August 11, 2025 02:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">WASHINGTON &#8212; The tariff policy of U.S. President Donald Trump is aimed at bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an exclusive interview with Nikkei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview US treasury secretary expects trade issues to be finished by October In an exclusive interview with Nikkei,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31604,31603,84,891,1294,1293,4062,28494,22974,6410,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-58171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-imbalanced","tag-bessent","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-history","tag-is","tag-modern","tag-most","tag-qa","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}