China has urged Lithuania not to act as a pawn for anti-China forces and urged the United States to stop playing the “Taiwan card”, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said here Monday. Wang made the remarks at a daily press briefing when asked to comment U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s remarks concerning China.
The United States distorted China’s legitimate measures to safeguard its national sovereignty as “coercion”, which has fully exposed the hypocrisy and deception of U.S. discourse bullying, Wang said. Wang said that speaking of coercion, the U.S. government forced the military government of Haiti to step down in 1994, and referred to that as “a textbook example of coercive diplomacy”; in 2003, it explicitly listed 30.3 billion U.S. dollars of military expenses for “coercive diplomacy;” it spared no effort to crack down on its competitors like Alstom and Toshiba and coerced the TSMC, Samsung and other companies to provide to the United States chip supply chain data. “This is flat-out ‘blackmail diplomacy’,” he said. Wang stressed that the fact is clear that Lithuania violated its political commitment it had made upon the establishment of diplomatic ties with China, and created the false impression of “one China, one Taiwan” in the world. “People of insight in Lithuania have also criticized this,” he added. – Xinhu
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