Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng condemned the US as “irresponsible” on Sunday as Washington said Beijing’s exemption demands risked undermining talks on expanding a WTO agreement, Reuters reported. US Trade Representative Michael Froman said on Thursday that China’s demands to exempt more than 100 products from a technology trade deal risked leading to a breakdown in the negotiations. “It is irresponsible for the US to discard the consensus that has been agreed by most of the countries only because the deal cannot meet its own requirement for several products,” Gao said in a statement.