BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan compatriots are increasingly aware that the United States advances its interests through pressure and power politics, without regard for fairness or reason, a mainland spokesperson said on Wednesday.

"Servility of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will not get Taiwan any mercy," said Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, in response to a media inquiry regarding the U.S. plan to impose a 100 percent tariff on imported pharmaceuticals and Taiwan is not on the list of exporters that enjoy preferential treatment, despite the DPP's claim of having got "preferential treatment."

The so-called "preferential treatment" Taiwan has got is actually coercion and exploitation by the United States, said the spokesperson at a press conference.

Zhu said the United States has always pursued an "America First" policy, with its sole focus on its own interests. The DPP's attempts to flatter and curry favor at the cost of the economic interests of Taiwan reveal its malicious intent of seeking U.S. support for its secessionist agenda.

In response to another media inquiry regarding Lai Ching-te's remarks that Taiwan would continue to "deepen cooperation with the U.S. to safeguard global supply chain security," the spokesperson said the Lai Ching-te authorities were acting out of narrow partisan political interests.

Zhu said that Lai's remarks were, in essence, an attempt to solicit U.S. support and sell out Taiwan, further exposing their calculated pursuit of seeking secession through external forces.

She stressed that cross-Strait trade maintained steady growth momentum in the first two months of this year, reaching 52.54 billion U.S. dollars, fully demonstrating that the economies of both sides of the Strait are deeply integrated and cannot be decoupled or severed. ■