{"id":378520,"date":"2018-09-25T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-with-knife-to-our-throat-china-rejects-trade-talks-with-us\/"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:57:15","slug":"presstv-with-knife-to-our-throat-china-rejects-trade-talks-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-with-knife-to-our-throat-china-rejects-trade-talks-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018With knife to our throat?\u2019 China rejects trade talks with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A senior Chinese official has ruled out more trade talks with the United States under pressure, a day after American tariffs imposed by the Washington on Chinese goods took effect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that the US has adopted this type of large-scale trade restrictions, they\u2019re holding a knife to someone\u2019s throat. Under these circumstances, how can negotiations proceed?\u201d Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>US tariffs on 200 billion dollars&#8217; worth of imported Chinese goods \u2014 and China\u2019s retaliatory duties on 60 billion dollars&#8217; worth of US products \u2014 took effect on Monday, amid an escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump initiated what is effectively a trade war with China in April, when he first imposed unusually heavy tariffs on imports from the Asian country.<\/p>\n<p>In a 36,000-word white paper issued on Monday, the Chinese cabinet, known as the State Council, accused the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/25\/575144\/China-trade-talks-US-knife-to-throat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Chinese official has ruled out more trade talks with the United States under pressure, a day after American tariffs imposed by the Washington on Chinese goods took effect. \u201cNow that the US has adopted this type of large-scale trade restrictions, they\u2019re holding a knife to someone\u2019s throat. Under these circumstances, how can negotiations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}