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Scott Bessent: “We're reordering the global economy, especially since the…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Scott Bessent: 'We're reordering the global economy' | The Conversation

Published | Video Starts at 02:28

The big question from all the conversations I've been a part of here has been whether the United States is rewriting the rules of, of the global economy. Well, I think We're reordering the global economy, especially since the China shock in the early 2000s, that free trade was not fair trade. President Trump has talked about that for decades. And he's made that one of his signature policies as he came back into the office. (02:28–02:40)

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Asserts that the global economy is being reordered due to unfair free trade since the early 2000s.

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