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Aušra Andriuškaitė is one of around 20-plus Lithuanians who live in Taiwan.

A declining number of Taiwanese fear an imminent war with China, according to a new poll suggesting that the rest of the world is far more worried than those at the center of this potential geopolitical flashpoint. According to the poll, published on Thursday by CommonWealth Magazine, 35.4 percent of respondents said that they were worried about a military conflict breaking out over the Taiwan Strait within the next year, a decrease of nearly 15 percentage points from last year’s survey. The p...

Annual poll finds Taiwanese fear of conflict in coming months has fallen 15 percentage points in the past year

In July last year, the tiny European state of Lithuania announced the opening of a Taiwanese representative office in its capital, Vilnius, writes Joshua Nevett. To the casual observer, the statement may have seemed unremarkable. To China, it was an intolerable declaration of diplomatic hostility. When the office opened last November, it was the first […]

It stood up to China over Taiwan, but this week Lithuania's president said it made a mistake.

It stood up to China over Taiwan, but this week Lithuania's president said it made a mistake.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda’s criticism on Tuesday of his country’s decision to allow Taipei to open a representative office in Vilnius using the name “Taiwanese” was a reflection of a domestic power struggle rather than a change in the Baltic state’s Taiwan policy, experts said. Raigirdas Boruta, an associate expert at the Lithuanian think tank Eastern Europe Studies Centre, said that tense relations between Nauseda and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte had continued...

Vilnius/Taipei, Jan. 5 (CNA) The Lithuanian president's criticism on Tuesday of his country's decision to allow the opening of a Taiwan representative office with "Taiwanese" in its name was more a reflection of a power struggle within the Baltic state's domestic politics than a change in the country's Taiwan policy, experts on the issue told CNA.

Lithuania, arguably one of the most vocal supporters of Taiwan in Europe, remains a target of Chinese tools of negative economic statecraft. In retaliation for the Baltic nation allowing Taiwan to open a representative office in its capital, China deleted Lithuania from its customs registry and has allegedly instigated a corporate boycott, instructing multinationals to sever ties with the country. Given that cereals constitute the largest export product of Lithuania to China, farmers and food pr...

It always nice to bask in the warm afterglow of another Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) fubar, this time the defeat of all four of the referendums that it had promoted and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had opposed. The DPP displayed competence, changing strategies when it needed to and effectively motivating its somewhat younger base than the KMT, a base that is more likely to live far from where it has household registry than the older KMT base and thus, is more difficult to get out. ...