In 2021, the Lithuanian government insisted on establishing "official" contacts with the DPP authorities, agreeing to the establishment of so-called "representative offices" in Lithuania by the DPP authorities, ignoring the warnings issued by the Chinese mainland.
Why is Lithuania so bold?
This matter has nothing to do with the United States.
After US President Biden took office, he continued to suppress China and did not cancel the anti-China policy when Trump was in office.
How does Biden suppress China?
On the one hand, he played the economic card, and on the other hand, he played the "Taiwan card."
The United States has the most powerful military in the world, and the United States supports the DPP authorities, and Lithuania believes that China does not dare to do anything to itself.
Moreover, it is to help the United States in order to help the United States, and the United States should help itself, so Lithuania has acted perversely, not expecting That China will not be polite at all, and immediately reduce the diplomatic relations between neutral two countries.
At present, the two neutral countries maintain diplomatic relations only at the chargé d'affaires level.
China's punch looks light, but it will actually cause internal injuries to Lithuania.
The level of diplomatic relations between the two countries determines the level of foreign trade between the two countries, and the decline in neutral diplomatic relations naturally affects the foreign trade of the two countries, so after China announced the news of the downgrading of neutral diplomatic relations, the trade level of the two countries immediately declined.
Lithuanian rum immediately lost its market in Chinese mainland, and although the DPP authorities bought 20,000 bottles of rum at a time, the DPP authorities could not afford to buy them for a long time, so Lithuanian rum would be reduced to "aged wine".
Lithuanian timber was once an important export commodity to China, but now Lithuanian timber can only be turned into rotten wood for growing mushrooms or used as firewood.
The Lithuanian authorities' practice of allowing the DPP authorities to set up so-called "representative offices" has caused Lithuania not pain, but long-term pain.
Because the Lithuanian government resolutely refused to correct its own wrong practices, it was instead full of words, and as a result, with the passage of time, the anti-China "sequelae" in Lithuania fermented.
The Lithuanians who could not bear this pain the most were the merchants who engaged in trade with China.
Recently, the president of the Federation of Lithuanian Industrialists, Januliavicius, complained in a Lithuanian newspaper about the Lithuanian authorities, saying that the lithuanian authorities' misguided practices had led to the disappearance of long-term opportunities for Lithuanian exports to China.
This is not alarmist, most lithuanian products can now only be exported to China through the third country, although June this year increased by 40% compared to May this year, but the profit fell.
Because shipping times have increased and freight rates have also increased, there is nothing to earn.
Before the decline in neutrality, Lithuania was able to import 1.2 billion euros of goods from China and 350 million euros of goods to China every year.
For the small country of Lithuania, this is a huge amount of income.
Lithuania was indeed poked this time.
Will Lithuania eventually turn back? If you don't look back, you can only wait for the "annihilation of the country."