‘Sir as you always say economic security is national security and a country does not have sovereignty if we don't have control of our critical minerals don't have control of our steel production and our industrial base ' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Oval Office launch on 6 February...
Rwanda has hit back by stating that the sanctions and the demand by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that it order ‘the immediate withdrawal of RDF troops weapons and equipment' are unfair one-sided and ‘misrepresent the reality and distort the facts of the conflict'...
Senior officials including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have already boycotted preparatory meetings hosted by South Africa (Dispatches 21/7/25 Two cheers for multilateralism)...
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Vol 66 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
- G20
But getting agreement on any text in the absence of the United States whose Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent boycotted the meeting for a second time underlining the pariah status which the Trump administration has given to Cyril Ramaphosa's government must count as a significant success (Dispatches 18/2/25 Brussels offers hand of friendship & AC Vol 66 No 7 Pretoria picks new envoy for the MAGA minefield)...
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted on 23 April that his administration wasn't planning to withdraw from the Washington-based international financial institutions as proposed by the conservative Heritage Foundation but he want to several radical changes to their operations...