View of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius Photo: VCG
Although China has been forced to downgrade diplomatic relations with Lithuania after the Baltic state challenged China’s sovereignty over Taiwan and abandoned the internationally recognized one-China principle followed by the country’s previous governments, the current Lithuanian government remains more hostile and provocative, analysts say. China. Such extremist policies and stupidity against China could force the Baltic state to act as a “riot” and become isolated in the region.
Chinese experts have said that anti-Chinese politicians are underestimating themselves in Lithuania and are at a standstill. They said many cases had already shown that governments that risked their national interests to appease the United States by unduly challenging China or Russia would be deceived and eventually abandoned in Washington.
When Washington decides to ease tensions with Beijing or Moscow, the stupid and extreme steps of governments that recklessly show their loyalty to Washington can only disappoint, and Lithuania is on this tragic path, observers have noted.
Arrogance and ignorance
Foreign Minister Gabrilius Landsberg said during a visit to Washington that he had spoken to senior US officials about Lithuania’s efforts to reduce its dependence on supplies and called for long-term efforts to help other countries cope with the pressure, AFP said on Wednesday. he even claimed that his country was “showing the world” a way to withstand China’s growing pressure by diversifying its supply chains and merging with democracies.
“In my opinion, Lithuania’s biggest lesson is that economic coercion does not necessarily mean that the country has to give up independent foreign policy decisions,” Landsbergis told AFP.
A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, Zhao Lijiang, said on Thursday: “If the reality is that the Lithuanian foreign minister says the Lithuanian government can make independent foreign policy decisions, then I would like to ask him: what is he doing to the United States?”
Analysts said Landsberg visits the United States for reward because his government is showing its loyalty in challenging China, and without these awards, these opportunistic Lithuanian politicians will not dare to throw China with such an unreasonable, ill-considered and illogical stance.
Lithuanian Economy Minister Usrin Armonite told Reuters on November 19 that Lithuania would sign a $ 600 million export credit agreement with the US Export-Import Bank.
“It just goes to show that Lithuania’s provocative pace is followed by a puppet master who runs the show with intent,” Zhao said on Thursday, “and I want to emphasize that Lithuania’s deal – exchanging export credits from the United States while undermining China’s sovereignty – is unethical. . “And very dangerous.”
No matter how rewarding the American promises, these awards can only benefit the United States and some Lithuanian politicians, or they can be a compliment and have nothing to do with the Lithuanian majority paying for a stupid foreign government. policy, Cui Hongjian, director of the Department of European Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, told the Global Times on Thursday.
Lithuanian politicians are now trying to expand their anti-China side to include more like-minded politicians in the region to further provoke China over Taiwan. According to the Taiwanese authorities on Wednesday, “about 10 parliamentarians from Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia will visit Taipei” in early December, while also meeting with “senior Taiwanese officials”.
The Lithuanian politicians want to prove that they are not alone and check how far Europe and the United States will continue to support them, Sun Kekin, a researcher at China’s Institute of Contemporary International Relations, told the Global Times on Thursday.
“Lithuania is a small country that has covered the international media very little in the past, but its provocation on Taiwan has suddenly put the Baltic state in the international spotlight,” and these politicians want to maximize their political interests with this kind of dangerous move. The sun marked.
Myopia “bananas”
The three Baltic states actually have very limited trade relations with China, which is the main reason why they will dare to challenge China, but this short-sightedness may destroy their ability to receive significant assistance from China to promote economic development, Cui noted.
“The United States and some other big Western countries are very hypocritical. On the one hand, they do not want to leave the Chinese market and are reluctant to provoke China on issues such as Taiwan, on the other hand, they urge small countries like Lithuania to recklessly provoke China so that these small countries lose market share. . ”
Many countries have already mastered the hypocrisy and selfishness of the United States. For example, the former Aquino administration in the Philippines used it recklessly, despite China’s South China Sea issue, to serve the US move to Asia strategy and paid a heavy economic price; Georgia challenged Russia in 2008 but did not receive any assistance from the West when Russia launched a military revenge; Chinese analysts said Canada had illegally detained Menu Wenzhou, the chief financial officer of China’s IT giant Huawei, in December 2018 and suffered heavy losses due to damage to relations with China.
All of these cases prove time and time again that the United States will only use its allies or small nations to serve its “superpower” in competition with China and Russia, but will never provide any significant support or at least no harm to its followers. “Great power competition strategy” because of American blind service, experts note.
Strong relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe
While anti-Chinese politicians in Lithuania are fiercely trying to expand their “anti-China team” among the Baltic states, China is also making diplomatic efforts to promote mutually beneficial cooperation with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) to prevent a crazy Lithuania. . Pollution of friendly relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe.
Deng Li, Deputy Foreign Minister and Secretary-General of the Secretariat for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC), hosted a group meeting on Monday with diplomatic envoys and representatives from China from 14 countries, including Albania, Croatia and the Czech Republic. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s website states that Greece, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, northern Macedonia, Serbia, Poland, Hungary and Romania.
At the meeting, the diplomatic envoys of the Central and Eastern European countries praised the fruitful results of the cooperation between China and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and considered this cooperation to be an important and beneficial complement to the Sino-EU. relationship.
All parties exchanged views on how to jointly strengthen cooperation between China and the CEE countries in order to achieve more realistic results and make a new contribution to the development of Sino-CAEC and Sino-EU relations.
Experts point out that Lithuania will be isolated in the long run if it continues its stupid anti-China policy, while all its neighbors will continue to benefit from cooperation and practical exchanges with China.
Mr Cui emphasized that the mistake made by some countries, such as Lithuania, should not affect the big map of Sino-European cooperation, stating that “we cannot allow mouse droppings to damage a whole bowl of porridge.” Lithuania’s revenge seems to have had some effect, and we want to let other European countries see prospects for cooperation with China. “
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