Top US officials have accused China of betraying a trade truce reached earlier this year, escalating tensions between the two economic giants. In an unusual, staged appearance, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted China's plans to curb exports of rare earths "economic coercion" and "a global supply chain power grab". "If China wants to be an unreliable partner to the world, then the world will have to decouple," Bessent said. At the same time, they