{"id":7051,"date":"2018-04-25T17:13:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2018-04-25T17:13:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:13:29","slug":"steven-mnuchin-will-head-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7051","title":{"rendered":"Steven Mnuchin Will Head to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">President Trump is dispatching several of his top economic advisers to China next week\u00a0for high-level talks aimed at easing trade tensions, several weeks after the White House and Beijing threatened each other with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tariffs.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer will be among those on the trip, Trump said Tuesday. The president specified no particular goals for the delegation, but he said the trip is being organized at Beijing\u2019s request. Chinese officials in recent weeks have repeatedly complained that the Trump administration has refused to say which concessions could resolve Trump\u2019s complaints or even which U.S. official is in charge of the trade fight.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">\u201cWe\u2019re having very substantive discussions on trade,\u201d\u00a0Trump said, without elaboration, at the White House.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\">Rufus Yerxa, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, welcomed the announcement. \u201cWe\u2019d be encouraged by any indication that both sides are going to move toward some meaningful negotiation,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be interested to see what they put on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is dispatching several of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7052,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}