Alastair Gale was Asia security correspondent and Japan editor for The Wall Street Journal, based in Tokyo. He covered ...

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a private event Tuesday that the US-China trade war is unsustainable and that he expects a deescalation, according to people familiar with his remarks.

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