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NY Times Article Rating

Bessent Does Not Back Up Trump's Claim of Trade Talks With China's Xi

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    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -38% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : "I don't know if President Trump has spoken with President Xi," Mr. Bessent said when pressed by the host, Martha Raddatz, about Mr. Trump's statements that the two leaders had spoken about trade.
11% : Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that he did not know if President Trump had spoken to President Xi Jinping of China, casting further doubt on Mr. Trump's recent suggestion that Mr. Xi had called him.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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