Why 🐵 NatSecAllTheTime picked: Bessent meets with Chinese counterpart ahead of Trump-Xi summit

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, ahead of the planned summit between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.

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President Trump’s ambassador to the U.N. said he would not put a timeline on the end of the Iran war. “I think time ... is on the president’s and on the United States’ side,” Mike Waltz told CNN.

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