Back Lithuania or face more coercion from China, lawmakers tell EU chiefs

Failing to properly respond to China’s unofficial trade embargo against Lithuania will “embolden [Beijing] to engage in further coercion”, members of the European Parliament have warned top Brussels officials.In a letter seen by the South China Morning Post, a group of 41 lawmakers told EU chiefs that inaction “will also allow [the] PRC to weaken EU unity and intensify ‘divide and rule’ practices among the EU member states as well as seek to diminish the EU’s role globally”.Lithuania became…South China Morning Post