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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 to heat up since the Cabinet led by Simonyte assumed office in December 2020. “This recent statem...

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 producers have been hit particularly hard through the ongoing spat. Consequently, as Taiwan seeks to c...

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. Kudos to the DPP. This was a performance that Taiwan needed: the ractopamine pork referendum