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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 poll also found that 59.7 percent of people do not think Beijing will ultimately use force to take Ta...

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.