It's "China versus the world," asserted US treasury secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday slamming Beijing’s rare earth export curbs, further vowing that Washington and its allies would "neither be commanded nor controlled. " "If some in the Chinese government want to slow down the global economy through disappointing actions and through economic coercion, the Chinese economy will be hurt the most — and make no mistake: this is China vs. the world," Bessent told reporters at a press conference, during the IMF and World Bank fall meetings in Washington. "This should be a clear sign to our allies that we must work together, and we will.... We do not want to decouple. We should work together to de-risk and diversify our supply chains away from China as quickly as possible," Bessent add

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