Chinanews.com, Beijing, May 14 (Li Jingze) In response to the US Secretary of State Brinken and Australian Foreign Minister Payne's meeting with reporters in Washington that the United States will not allow Australia to face China's "economic coercion" alone, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chun Ying refuted it at a regular press conference on the 14th. She said that "economic coercion" and "diplomatic coercion" are the strengths and characteristics of the United States.

  Hua Chunying said that I don't know where the US's so-called "economic coercion" of its allies started.

Speaking of "economic coercion," the United States has brandished a "stick of sanctions" against Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela for many years, provoked a "trade war" against many countries, and abused national security to arbitrarily suppress high-tech companies in other countries.

  "I have noticed that many people in the United States hope that China and the United States will strengthen dialogue and cooperation, calling on China and the United States to meet each other halfway to improve relations, and believe that a healthy, stable and sustainable development of Sino-US relations is in the interests of the American people." Hua Chunying asked, Secretary of State Blincoln. Does it mean that the interests of Australia are more important than those of the United States?

If this is the case, when did the US policy change from "America first" to "Australia first"?

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