Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China will continue to retaliate to the United States’ “arbitrary tariffs” and accused Washington of “meeting good with evil” in a press conference Friday on the sidelines of the annual parliamentary session.

CHINA says there is no cause for concern over its growing engagement in this region. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave the assurance as he addressed a press conference in Beijing on Friday, attended by journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticism of Trump's tariffs is the highest level push back from Beijing on the matter so far.

Along with fulminating against the United States, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China’s South China Sea claims, blasted Japan for its past aggression and covered a wide range of other is

Yet president Donald Trump’s decision to hike tariffs on Chinese imports to 20%, just six weeks into his term, loomed over the press conference. Pointing to China’s efforts to control flows of fentanyl into the U.

A sharp rebuke from Wang Yi here to the US - on using the “law of the jungle” rather than using the rules-based order that ironically - the US helped to create. It feels like we are living in a world viewed through the looking glass, where it is Beijing telling Washington to play by the rules.

No country should fantasize that it can suppress China and maintain a good relationship with China at the same time,” said Wang Yi.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will continue to retaliate to the United States’ “arbitrary tariffs” and accused Washington of “meeting good with evil” in a press conference Friday on the sidelines of the country’s annual parliamentary session.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters Friday morning how he felt about U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. CBS News foreign correspondent Anna Coren reports.