Lithuania Spoils China’s Taiwan Narrative in the EU
The small country is becoming a thorn in the side of the Asian superpower over another small country that is also a thorn in the side of the same superpower
Even without any previous context, anyone looking on the world map would agree that Lithuania is a small country. With a population of just below 3 million people and about the same size as the US state of West Virginia by land, this small European country tucked along the Baltic Sea has recently pushed some disproportionately sensitive pressure points on China.
With China being widely recognized as one of the largest countries in the world by various metrics including 1.4 billion people and an economy 270 times the size of Lithuania, Vilnius caused a major uproar with Beijing by calling out the name of Taiwan in its official naming of their representative office in Lithuania. Like Lithuania, Taiwan has itself been a small country that has been a thorn in the side of China for the last seven decades just by the fact that it insists on calling itself an independent country at all.
Asymmetric Dissent
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