Impossible to hold trade talks with US continuing to impose tariff: US

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?"