AFP, Beijing :
China said on Tuesday that it was impossible to hold trade talks with the United States while Washington is imposing tariffs that are like “holding a knife to someone’s throat”.
Speaking a day after the United States activated tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, vice commerce minister Wang Shouwen told reporters: “Now that the US has adopted this type of large-scale trade restrictions, they’re holding a knife to someone’s throat. Under these circumstances, how can negotiations proceed?”
