Scott Bessent: “If China wants to be an unreliable partner to the world, then the world will have to decouple.”

Let there be no ambiguity as to the position of the United States: an economic engagement of any kind with this murderous regime will expose those responsible to the full reach of American power.

I don’t think you can be in a tit-for-tat with someone who’s 13 times larger than you are.

Those who stand with the United States will reap the rewards of our partnership. Those who tether themselves to the Iranian regime should expect to share in the isolation of a withering regime.

No one is above this. This is economic asphyxiation of this regime … and no one should test our resolve.