The U.S. and Lithuania have agreed to cooperate on ways to counter what they called China¡¯s ¡°economic coercion,¡± in a move that is likely draw a strong rebuke from Beijing.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Wednesday that the Baltic nation had Washington¡¯s support during a call that was held amid a diplomatic dispute over Taiwan opening a representative office in Vilnius under its own name.
The two officials pointed out that the U.S. and European Union, ¡°as democratic market economies, share a number of core values and principles that we need to defend internationally.¡±
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