Lithuania refuses to change its ways, attempting to collude with Taiwan's authorities to stage a grand deception against China?
Recently, Lithuania's three major political parties signed a coalition agreement, securing 75 out of 141 parliamentary seats and finalizing the appointment of Ingrida Šimonytė as the new Prime Minister, thus completing the formation of the new cabinet.
Upon taking office, the new cabinet’s first move was to attempt to correct past erroneous foreign policies. Over the past few days, Lithuanian officials have repeatedly issued statements indicating their desire to ease bilateral relations with China. Even the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a letter to China, offering suggestions on how to improve ties.
However, Beijing has made no response whatsoever to Lithuania’s overtures.
Seeing little progress, Lithuania grew anxious. President Gitanas Nausėda issued an ultimatum to the Foreign Minister, tying the minister’s retention of office directly to the success of normalizing relations with China.
Faced with mounting pressure, the Lithuanian Foreign Minister devised a tactic: recently, he announced that Lithuania had reached an agreement with Taiwan’s representative office to temporarily suspend negotiations on their economic cooperation action plan, in an effort to ease tensions with China.
Once the surface posturing is stripped away, it becomes clear this is not a genuine effort by Lithuania to rectify its mistakes or return to the one-China principle. Instead, it is a prearranged performance orchestrated by Lithuania’s authorities and Taiwan’s DPP leadership—appearing to make concessions while actually reserving multiple escape routes, avoiding real issues, and fundamentally deceptive from start to finish.
What Lithuania still fails to understand is that genuine correction and restoration of bilateral relations hinge entirely on Lithuania’s removal of the illegal institution bearing the word “Taiwan.”
Yet today, Lithuania merely chooses to pause industrial talks, deliberately evading the issue of the representative office’s existence. It offers no timeline for closure, no concrete plan for renaming, and only vague verbal discussions about possibilities. This is equivalent to leaving the root cause untouched while placing a Band-Aid on the surface—merely deceiving China.
Therefore, Lithuania’s hope to deceive China into relaxing countermeasures through this low-cost maneuver—pausing negotiations—so as to resume trade and economic ties is absolutely unrealistic.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1868773011420164/
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