Trade standoff with China deepens as Bessent insists the U.S. will ‘neither be commanded nor controlled’
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Wednesday that China’s recent restrictions on rare earths exports are a “global supply chain power grab.” Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke to reporters at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., where Bessent said Beijing’s actions amounted to a provocation. The remarks were the latest sign that the…