US habitual ’coercive diplomacy’ offender; Lithuania should stop being anti-China pawn: Spokesperson

Beijing Daily: On January 7, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai spoke with European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis over the phone and expressed the US’ strong support for the EU and for Lithuania in the face of economic coercion from China. Do you have any response? Wang Wenbin: Speaking of coercion, we should look at what the US did: The US 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 characterized the $30.3 billion additional military expenses for “coercive diplomacy” as incurred expenses; 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 US chip supply chain data. This is flat-out “blackmail diplomacy”. Its attempt to misrepresent China’s legitimate measures to uphold national sovereignty as “coercion” only serves to reveal how hypocritical and deceptive the