Yellen Heads to China This Week to Press Beijing on Overcapacity

  • Treasury chief will also stop in export powerhouse Guangdong
  • Yellen has slammed China for industrial policies roiling world

Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary.

Photographer: Alyssa Pointer/Bloomberg
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will this week travel to China for the second time in nine months, aiming to press her counterparts on a build-up of industrial overcapacity that poses threats to the rest of the world’s economies.

Yellen will spend two days in the southern commercial and manufacturing hub of Guangzhou beginning April 5 before heading to Beijing for two more days of talks, the Treasury announced Tuesday.