• <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-plan-anti-coercion-trade-measure-faces-scepticism-2021-12-07/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">The European Commission</a> will propose today a new trade defense measure designed to combat non-EU countries wielding undue pressure on a member of the union, namely, China on Lithuania.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A bigger picture: Greens lawmaker Reinhard Buetikofer said that for the Commission proposal to be effective it must not allow just one EU country to block action, pointing to Hungary’s closer ties with Beijing and previous use of a veto.</li></ul><blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(255, 225, 68); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(255, 225, 68); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">“If any proof was needed that the EU needs an effective instrument to protect itself against economic coercion by third countries, China’s blackmailing pressure on Lithuania has now provided it,” said Buetikofer.</blockquote><ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A step back: China started exerting pressure on Lithuania and pressured companies in third countries not to do business with it after the Baltic state allowed Taiwan to open a de facto embassy in the country.</li></ul>

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