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Lithuania stands up to China — but who will follow?
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BOILING IN THE BALTIC
Lithuania rewrote the diplomatic map this week by welcoming Europe’s first “Taiwanese Representative Office.” Note the name: Taiwan’s de facto embassies in other European capitals use the “Taipei” label. That is to appease the mainland Chinese authorities, who regard the self-governing offshore democracy as a rebel province. No such deference in Vilnius.
As we’ve reported in previous editions, the new government of the southernmost Baltic state (population 2.7 million) has been hard at work this year: