China to tap market, speed up treaty talks

China is confident in how it deals with external challenges and is further tapping the domestic market potential while accelerating the pace of negotiations with the European Union to reach a quality bilateral investment treaty, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.

Gao Feng, the ministry's spokesman, said the United States is bullying the rest of the world with a big stick in the form of tariffs while claiming how innocent it is.

His comments came after some US officials recently blamed China for "negotiation failure".