{"id":16496,"date":"2018-09-27T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16496"},"modified":"2018-09-27T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:23:01","slug":"negotiator-us-is-putting-a-knife-to-chinas-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16496","title":{"rendered":"Negotiator: US is putting a knife to China&#8217;s neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Beijing  (CNN)<\/cite>China&#8217;s deputy trade negotiator on Tuesday acknowledged the challenge in resuming negotiations with the US, saying: &#8220;How could you negotiate with someone when he puts a knife on your neck?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Wang Shouwen made the remarks at a press conference in Beijing aimed at highlighting a newly issued  government policy paper on bilateral trade frictions, in which China portrays itself as a victim of US protectionism and bullying.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The paper was released Monday shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/09\/23\/politics\/trump-trade-war-china\/index.html\">US President Donald Trump slapped 10% tariffs<\/a> on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. China has retaliated with 5-10% tariffs on $60 billion worth of American goods.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing (CNN)China&#8217;s deputy trade negotiator on Tuesday acknowledged the challenge in resuming negotiations with the US, saying: &#8220;How could you negotiate with someone when he puts a knife on your neck?&#8221;Wang Shouwen made the remarks at a press conference in Beijing aimed at highlighting a newly issued government policy paper on bilateral trade frictions, in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}