BCN-08 China says can’t hold US trade talks with ‘knife to the throat’

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China says can’t hold US trade talks with ‘knife to the throat’

BEIJING, Sept 25, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – 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?”

BSS/AFP/MR/ 1120 hrs