Lithuania has been in an increasingly precarious situation since von der Leyen's visit to China last year, and after von der Leyen's return, the EU quickly suspended the dispute between "Lithuania under economic coercion" and China at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The reason is actually very simple, the EU clearly understands that decoupling from China is unrealistic, during this time not only German Chancellor Scholz once again led a large business delegation to visit China, but when the Chinese national leader visited France, Macron was also directly received at a high level, on the other hand, Lithuania, its economic size in the EU can be said to be negligible, so Lithuania is counting on the EU to support itself, which is destined to be a pipe dream from the beginning.
The United States also abandoned Lithuania at the economic level, when the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, Lithuania also called on EU countries to cut off their dependence on Russian energy and import American energy instead, French President Macron has always spoken bluntly, he claimed that the United States sold at least 4 times more natural gas to Europe, so Lithuania soon couldn't hold on, and began to secretly import Russian energy and grain.
As the Lithuanian presidential election approaches, these problems are obviously coming to Lithuania, and in this context, Lithuania is no longer stubborn and hopes to repair relations with China. According to the latest news, in response to the so-called "Taiwan representative office", Lithuanian President Nauseda claimed that although "the establishment of a representative office is welcomed in principle", he believes that it is necessary to change its name on the premise of bringing stability to relations with China.
However, it is obvious that if Lithuania really wants to repair relations with China, it is obviously not as simple as changing the name of the so-called "Taiwan representative office", and in essence it is still a serious violation of the one-China principle, and neither the "Taiwan representative office" nor the "Taiwan representative office" is in line with the one-China policy.
As early as last year, when the Lithuanian foreign minister claimed that China had actually "lifted the sanctions against Lithuania," he tried to turn the page on the Taiwan issue, but the Chinese side did not give any face and demanded that Lithuania correct its mistakes in a timely manner and create favorable conditions for economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.
From here, it is not difficult to see that the poor person must have something to hate, Lithuania is obviously so uncomfortable now, but it still can't take the most critical step, most of them still don't want to offend the United States, after all, although the United States has abandoned Lithuania at the economic level, but Lithuania still has to be entrusted with the protection of the United States, otherwise as soon as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict ends, it is very likely to be settled by Russia.
But to put it bluntly, none of this has anything to do with China, Lithuania itself has no foresight, and is willing to act as a pawn of the United States, making a mess of its own internal and external environment, and it has to be responsible for what it does.