{"id":68415,"date":"2019-03-15T03:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68415"},"modified":"2019-03-15T03:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:33:28","slug":"cohn-says-u-s-is-desperate-to-sign-trade-agreement-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2019\/cohn-says-u-s-is-desperate-to-sign-trade-agreement-with-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Cohn Says U.S. Is \u2018Desperate\u2019 to Sign Trade Agreement with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Gary Cohn, the former head of President Donald Trump\u2019s National Economic Council, said the U.S. is \u201cdesperate right now\u201d for a trade pact with China as negotiators from both countries seek to reach a deal. \u201cThe president needs a win,\u201d Cohn said in an interview with the Freakonomics podcast, according to a transcript released Wednesday. Cohn\u2019s comments stand in contrast to statements from Trump that he\u2019s in no rush for an agreement and is prepared to walk away from negotiations. Trump said Wednesday that a deal has to be \u201cright\u201d and that it must include provisions stopping the theft of U.S. intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-14\/cohn-says-u-s-is-desperate-to-sign-trade-agreement-with-china\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Gary Cohn, the former head of President Donald Trump\u2019s National Economic Council, said the U.S. is \u201cdesperate right now\u201d for a trade pact with China as negotiators from both countries seek to reach a deal. \u201cThe president needs a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68416,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68415\/revisions\/68416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}