In response to U.S. Secretary of State Blinken’s claim that China’s trade sanctions on Australia have backfired and used economic means to coerce Australia, China will suffer even more losses, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference on February 11 that the U.S. itself Wearing the hat of "coercion" is well deserved.
Zhao Lijian said that when it comes to so-called "coercion", the U.S. government called the 1994 forced resignation of the Haitian military government "an example of coercive diplomacy." Suppressing China's Huawei, France's Alstom, Japan's Toshiba and other competitors, and coercing TSMC, Samsung and other companies to hand over chip supply chain data, these can be called "textbook-like" "economic coercion".
"The Chinese side has always taken relevant measures against foreign products exported to China in strict accordance with Chinese laws and regulations and WTO rules based on the legitimate rights and interests of relevant domestic industries and the safety of consumers, which is completely reasonable, legal, and beyond reproach. The so-called 'economic coercion' cannot be dismissed. It's up to the Chinese side. Any attempt to confuse right and wrong and malicious hype is doomed to failure," he said.
(Reporter Zhu Chao)