The Lithuanian Tribune Publishes a Signed Article by Ambassador Shen Zhifei Entitle "China Will Never Surrender to Economic Bullying"

　　2019年6月18日，驻立陶宛大使申知非就中美贸易摩擦问题在立主流媒体立陶宛论坛网发表题为《中国绝不会向经济霸凌行径低头》的署名文章。全文如下：

　　近期，中美贸易摩擦成为全球媒体关注焦点，立陶宛媒体也发表了许多评论，认为中美“贸易战”升级不仅事关中美两国，而且将殃及欧洲、殃及立陶宛。

On June 18th, 2019, the Lithuania Tribune, published a signed article by H. E. Mr. Shen Zhifei, Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania, entitled "China Will Never Surrender to Economic Bullying". The full text is as follows:

Recently, China-US trade friction has been the focus of global media. There are also quite some coverage on the issue by the Lithuanian media, mostly councerned that the trade war not only has a bearing to China and the US, but will ultimately have EU and Lithuania involved.

　　毋庸讳言，美国政府对华采取的一系列极端贸易保护措施，损害的不仅仅是中美两国利益，势必将波及欧洲等世界各国，严重破坏国际经济秩序，冲击全球价值链和国际分工体系，引发国际金融和大宗商品市场剧烈震荡，已成为全球经济复苏的最大不确定因素和风险源。今年以来，世界银行和国际货币基金组织分别下调2019年全球经济增长预期，并表示经贸摩擦可能会进一步抑制全球经济增长，继续削弱本已疲软的投资。

No doubt, a series of extreme trade protectionist measures taken by the US against China have harmed not only the interests of China and the US, but is also bound to spread to other parts of the world including Europe. It has seriously undermined international economic order, disrupted global value chain and the international division of labor, and led to violent swings in the international financial and commodity markets, becoming the greatest source of uncertainty and risk for the recovery of the global economy. Since this year, Word Bank and International Monetary Fund have lowed the expectation of global economic growth in 2019, stating that the China-US trade friction could further hurt global economy and curb the already weak investment.

　　美国奉行“美国优先”和贸易保护主义，关税和制裁“大棒”同样地挥向了其盟友。近一年来，美与欧盟围绕钢铝产品、汽车及其零部件以及航空业补贴问题摩擦不断。日前，双方先后开出价值约110亿美元和200亿美元的商品清单，威胁向对方加征关税。近日，特朗普总统签署行政命令，自6月5日起终止对印度的发展中国家普惠制待遇。路透社评价称，这不仅是特朗普上台以来对印度采取的最严厉惩罚，还将在全球贸易战中开辟一条新战线。为了应对美国的贸易保护主义行为，其他国家不得不采取反制措施，这将进一步导致全球经贸秩序紊乱，阻碍全球经济复苏，殃及世界各国企业和居民，使全球经济落入“衰退陷阱”。

Trumpeting "America First"and trade protectionism, the US administration has also wielded tariffs and sanctions as a "big stick" against its allies. There have been trade frictions and tensions between the US and EU in the past year, ranging from steel and aluminum products, automobiles and auto-parts to subsidies to aircraft manufacturers. In recent days, the US and EU have threatened to impose tariffs on each other's import respectively worth of $11 billion and $20 billion. The Trump administration also announced that the US ended special trade treatment for India, removing a status that exempts billions of dollars of the country's products from US tariffs from June 5th. The Reuters commented that it is not only the most severe punishment on India since Donald Trump took office, but has also broken new ground on the battlefield of international trade war. Other countries have to take countermeasures in response to the trade protectionist practices of the US, further disrupting global economic and trade order, dampening world economic recovery, and undermining the development of companies and the well-being of people in all countries, plunging the world economy into the "recession trap".