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Lithuania’s Heroic Stand Against China: The World Should Listen Commentary Lithuania is a small Baltic country of population 2.8 million and land area 65,300 square kilometers. Compare that to China’s 1.4 billion population and 9.6 million square kilometers. Yet, Lithuania has taken a series of steps against the Chinese Communist Party in recent months that would at times have struck fear into the hearts of larger nations such as the United States, Japan, Germany, and France. Apparently precipitated by a recognition of the genocide in China’s Xinjiang region, Lithuania blocked Chinese i...

Estonia behaved sensibly when it sent a lower-ranking representative than Beijing wished to attend the 17+1 summit between China and Eastern and Central European countries, Frank Jüris, research fellow at the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute and China expert says. "It is [Estonia's] realistic assessment of the usefulness of the 17+1 format," Jüris found. "The cooperation format has been around for a decade, while it has been very little use and more harm in that time as China is using it to undermine EU unity," he emphasized. Despite China's wish for countries to be represented on the leve...