Normally speaking, there are not many countries in this world that dare to offend two big powers at the same time, after all, even the United States dares to play such a dangerous game when it has a certain chance of winning and relies on sufficient capital. However, there is one country that has repeatedly proved to the world throughout the year that challenging a great power requires no capital, only arrogance and ignorance, and this country is Lithuania.
At that time, there was an argument that the purpose of the United States was to break through the "one-China principle" and lead more Western anti-China forces to send politicians on active duty to visit Taiwan and support the "Taiwan independence" elements with international political support.
But in the face of the current tensions that involve the whole body, not many political forces will be stupid enough to follow the United States at this point in time, which is gambling on its own relations with China, but Lithuania has done just that.
According to Taiwan media reports, a delegation led by Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Vajchukvičit arrived in Taiwan a few days ago and plans to stay on the island for 5 days to meet with politicians on the island, including Kaohsiung Mayor Luo Dasheng.
This is also since Lithuania has once again broken through the lower limit of bilateral relations after insisting on the establishment of the so-called "Taiwan Representative Office" in spite of China's fierce opposition, and at present, the relations between the neutral two countries have been downgraded to the level of chargé d'affaires.
The answer is the United States, and in Europe, if you want to say who cooperates with the United States the most, it must be Anglo-German-French, but if you say who is closest to the United States, then Lithuania must be "unyielding."
The biggest threat to Lithuania is not China, but Russia. But they did not face russia's power at all, so for the EASTward expansion of NATO led by the United States, the three Baltic countries represented by Lithuania have always been in favor of both hands and feet.
Before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Lithuania repeatedly provoked Russia, and after the outbreak of war, they spared no effort to export arms to Ukraine, behind all this, the United States was constantly tempting and promoting.
Lithuania, which has an iron heart to stand with the United States, has handed over its power in foreign affairs to the United States, obviously has no conflict with China, or even any geographical relations, but it wants to hold high the banner of "anti-China." In the final analysis, it believes that under the protection of the United States, the Chinese side is far away from the sky and cannot help itself.
After the visit of the legislator, spokesman Wang Wenbin pointed out at the foreign ministry press conference that the libeat side has repeatedly violated its commitments, betrayed its faith toward the Chinese side, and challenged the "one-China principle," and the Chinese side will resolutely fight back. Listen clearly, it is a counterattack, not a countermeasure.
Under repeated provocations, we have become intolerable to Lithuania, and as far as the current situation is concerned, China's counterattack means will be mainly reflected in the following aspects.
First, diplomatic relations continue to be downgraded, and at present, neutral relations have been downgraded to the chargé d'affaires level, which is the lowest level of bilateral relations, representing that diplomatic relations between the two countries are no longer complete, and all kinds of cooperation and exchanges will be restricted.
And if the cube continues to provoke like this, there is only one last way, that is, "severing diplomatic relations." No country will choose to sever diplomatic relations with a major country, especially the world's second-largest economic power, and this result will cause serious losses and unknown risks to itself in any aspect of economic and diplomatic affairs.
Second, economic sanctions continue to be tightened, and for more than a year, as relations between the two countries move toward a freezing point, the volume of neutral trade has fallen by 99.7%, and hundreds of Lithuanian enterprises have been seriously affected.
According to Russian media reports, Vidmantas Januliavicius, chairman of the Lithuanian Federation of Industrialists, bluntly said that the government's "visit to Taiwan" activity will make Lithuanian enterprises lose the opportunity to export to China for a long time.
In terms of imports, at present, Lithuania's billions of dollars of Chinese imports are almost all from third countries transit, once the Chinese side restricts this, the Lithuanian domestic market that loses China's supply in a short period of time will inevitably be severely impacted.
Third, the exclusion of Lithuania from Sino-European cooperation is, in fact, the greatest threat to confrontation, and it is more frightening than cutting off neutral trade.
After all, although the volume of neutral bilateral trade is widespread, but the total amount is only more than one billion euros, entrepreneurs are distressed, but the government can still accept it, because Lithuania dares to provoke Russia, in fact, because it is backed by the European Union, with EU blood supply and aid, which is naturally rampant.
However, the EU is willing to support Lithuania on the anti-Russian front, but it may not be willing to let it fool around in its relations with China, and in the future, Lithuania is very likely to be excluded from the huge China-EU economic and trade cooperation system, as long as any commercial and trade cooperation or policy involving cooperation with China cannot be enjoyed, from this point of view, letting the EU cut off blood is the real fatal crisis for them.
However, what may make Lithuania most desperate is not China's sanctions and counterattack, after all, China is far away and cannot cause great harm in a short period of time, but Russia is not necessarily close at hand.
At present, the Russian side has completely cut off the opposing energy supply channels, how Lithuania survives this winter is a problem, I don't know in Kaohsiung to talk about the electric vehicle business Vaychukvichut has not thought about this problem.
Taiwan's aid investment can not fill the huge economic and trade with China, and the silver given by the European Union cannot heat the high-rise buildings in Vilnius, and only hopes that the cube can recognize its own situation and restrain the horse from the precipice. If they really played themselves to death, neither the United States nor the Taiwan authorities would come to collect the corpses, after all, their cooperation was only to take what they needed.