AS BLINKEN COMFORTS AUSTRALIA, CHINA ACCUSES THE U.S. OF COERCIVE DIPLOMACY

Highlights

• The US has been accused of imposing economic sanctions and strong-arming other countries over trade issues to achieve its “strategic goals”

• Hua said “Coercive diplomacy is a specialty of the United States, which has provided the world with classic textbooks and cases of coercive diplomacy through its policies and actions.”

Immediately after the US Secretary of State....