The fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress will hold a press conference at 12:00 on March 4 in the press conference hall of the Great Hall of the People. The spokesperson of the conference will answer questions from Chinese and foreign reporters on the agenda of the conference and the work of the National People's Congress.

  ITOTASS: Not long ago, the EU appealed to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism regarding China's economic and trade restrictions on Lithuania.

Excuse me, what is the current state of China-neutral relations?

Is there a problem of China's "economic coercion" against Lithuania?

  Zhang Yesui: The one-China principle is the universal consensus and recognized norm of international relations in the international community, and it is the political basis for China to develop bilateral relations with all countries.

  In 1991, in the communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations signed between China and Lithuania, the Lithuanian government recognized that the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government of China and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and made a clear commitment not to establish official relations and conduct official exchanges with Taiwan.

In November last year, the Lithuanian government announced that it would allow the Taiwan authorities to set up a so-called "Taiwan Representative Office in Lithuania", which seriously violated the one-China principle and violated the political commitments Lithuanian made when the two countries established diplomatic relations.

It is completely legitimate and inevitable for the Chinese government to make a firm response to this.

At present, the responsibility for the problems in the relations between the two countries lies entirely with Cube.

  In international trade, China has always advocated respecting the rules of the WTO, creating a fair and competitive market environment, never discriminating against any country or any enterprise, and there is no so-called "economic coercion" problem.

  Regarding the EU's lawsuit at the WTO, we do not think it is constructive.

We hope that the EU will take an objective and fair stance and not expand the issue of neutrality or elevate it to the level of China-EU relations.

  (Organized according to the text of the webcast)