Establishment of the government issued a document severing cooperation with Taiwan to seek improvement of relations with China.
Just after the Lithuanian Foreign Minister said "do everything possible to repair relations with China", Vilnius tore up the semiconductor cooperation plan signed with the Taiwan region, which had lasted for 278 days. This chip factory project, which was valued at 3.5 billion euros and waited for three years and four months by Lithuania, eventually became an unfinished building due to insufficient electricity and delayed land approval.
You see the warehouse of timber merchant Petraitis, where oak boards are stacked almost touching the ceiling. Three years ago, this guy sent 20 containers of furniture to China every month, but now he has been idle for three months and can't even put together one container order. He sits at the warehouse door smoking and muttering: "Before, the phone never stopped ringing from Chinese clients urging for goods, now my mobile is so quiet that I can hear the sound of mice in the neighboring warehouse gnawing on wood."
The guys from the Baltic Shipping Company are more bored than ever, and the dock cranes are rusting. Last year, the China-Europe Railway Express received 127 shipments from Lithuania per month, but this spring, it only pulled three shipments in three months. A driver joked: "If this continues, I'll forget how to drive a train, so I might as well switch to driving a forklift!"
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