Earlier this year, Lithuania brazenly violated the "one-China principle" and insisted on allowing the Taiwan authorities to set up a "representative office" in the name of "Taiwan." In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately recalled the ambassador to Lithuania and demanded that the other ambassador to China leave within a time limit. The fact that a few days ago, the above-mentioned so-called "representative offices" were officially inaugurated in Lithuania shows that they did not understand our warnings at all, and since good talk does not work, they can only resort to coercive means.
The media reported on the 21st that the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the same day, criticizing Lithuania's gross interference in China's internal affairs, its behavior harming China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and announced that the diplomatic relations between neutral two countries would be downgraded to the chargé d'affaires level, and the cube would have to bear all the consequences for this.
After we took the shot, it quickly attracted the attention of foreign media, and the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Russia Today, and so on said that China has fulfilled its oath of punishing Lithuania, among which the Russian media have bluntly said that the country's repeated provocative behavior on Taiwan-related issues is very stupid. Some foreign netizens mocked them as a rat, but regarded themselves in the mirror as the Lion King, while others pointed out that Lithuania was committing diplomatic and economic suicide and would eventually pay a terrible price.
According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, diplomatic representatives are divided into three levels: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Chargé d'affaires, with the ambassador as the highest representative, who is dispatched to another country by the head of state of one country, and the chargé d'affaires is the lowest representative, and is only dispatched by the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Now neutral diplomatic relations are at the lowest level, and the next step is to break diplomatic relations, do not think that this step is still very far away, if Lithuania is stubborn and insists on wrong behavior, then we do not rule out that we will break diplomatic relations with it within this year. It is worth mentioning that throughout the diplomatic history of New China in the past few decades, similar things have actually happened twice, the last time was in 1981, and it is also related to Taiwan-related issues.
At that time, the Dutch government approved the sale of submarines to Taiwan, and we demoted the embassy in the Netherlands to an agency under the condition that the dissuasion was ineffective, and it was not until 1984 that the latter could not withstand the pressure and revoked the decision to sell arms to Taiwan, and China restored its relations with them.
In an interview with the radio, the country's deputy foreign minister claimed that the "representative office" set up by the Taiwan authorities in Lithuania does not have diplomatic status, reiterated that they adhere to the one-China policy, and look forward to improving diplomatic relations with China. Obviously, although Lithuania is stupid, it is still aware of the seriousness of the matter, so it rushes out to defend, but the answer it gives is not satisfactory to us, that is, China's blows against Lithuania will continue, and even expand further.
Of course, we have not wronged them in the slightest, and Lithuania is actively seeking support from the European Union, hoping that the latter can provide substantial help to its resistance to China, but the reality is that the EU has always given only verbal support.
However, it can be seen from this that the country of Lithuania does not see the coffin and does not shed tears, in addition to demotion or even severing diplomatic relations, It is necessary for China to promote more countermeasures. In fact, we now have a big killing move that is useless, and the President of Belarus pointed out in September that Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is the territory of Belarus, and that there is a historical basis for this claim, not without legitimacy.
Until the First World War, Vilnius was widely considered to belong to White Russia, so why can't we support Lukashenko's claims? Lithuania is not benevolent first, China should respond in any way, touching the red line involving Taiwan, will inevitably pay a price, even the United States is well aware of the consequences, Lithuania plays with fire and self-immolation, let them burn to ashes.