China announced sanctions to the deputy minister of Lithuania, why is Lithuanian provocative?

Jimu Journalist Xu Hanxiong

According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 12, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications and Communications of Lithuania Vailu Kaifuki visited Taiwan, trampled on a Chinese principle, seriously interfered in China's internal affairs, and harmed China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. In response to Wayqiu Kaifuqiu's bad provocative act, China decided to take sanctions on Wayqiu Kaifurt; suspended any form of communication with the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Communications, and suspended exchanges and cooperation with the international road transportation field.

China announced sanctions measures

Earlier, CCTV News reported on August 11 that Lithuania, headed by the deputy minister of Lithuania and the Deputy Minister of Communications, arrived in Taiwan on August 7 and conducted a five -day visit. At a regular press conference held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 11th, spokesman Wang Wenbin strongly condemned it. Wang Wenbin said that the cube has repeatedly violated the promise, and it is a naked belief and abandonment, and the Chinese side will resolutely fight back. We urged relevant people to go further and further on the wrong road.

Lithuania has hurt the Chinese people many times

Jimu reporters noticed that Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, used the words "Cube repeatedly violated promise" and used "back belly abandonment" to describe the bad provocative behavior of the relevant personnel.

This shows that Lithuania has hurt the feelings of the Chinese people many times. In fact, according to media reports, Lithuania has played the role of jumping beam clown many times on anti -China issues.

On November 18 last year, Lithuania ignored the strong Chinese protest and repeated negotiations, allowing the DPP authorities to set up the so -called "representative office in Lithuania Taiwan", which opened a bad precedent for creating "one middle and one". To this end, China has downgraded the diplomatic level with Lithuania and reduced its embassy in China to the agency. In addition, China has also interrupted part of the import and export trade and economic cooperation with cubic cubes.

When Lithuania issued relevant news three months ago, China had made a diplomatic response: the recall of the Ambassador to Lithuania and asked the government to recall the ambassador to China. At that time, the Ambassador of Lithuania, Mikaevic, entered the country and wasolated in Beijing for 21 days, and had to return to the house.

Cube provocations have been countered by China

The last time the Chinese government made this "punishment" 40 years ago, it was also due to Taiwan. In 1981, the Dutch government approved the sales of submarines to Taiwan to violate the principle of the China Dutch Joint Bulletin in 1972. China announced the reduction of the Chinese embassy in the Netherlands into the agency. It was not until 1984 that the Dutch promised no longer approved the soldiers of the country to sell weapons to Taiwan, and China Dutch restored the ambassador -level diplomatic relations.

Since 2021, on the issue of Taiwan -related issues, Lithuania has continuously brushed the sense of presence: in May, the cube announced the withdrawal mechanism for the "17+1" cooperation mechanism in China and Central and Eastern European countries. The country unanimously "responded to China"; on June 30, Lithuania said that the country plans to set up a "representative office" in Southeast Asia, such as Taiwan; on July 20, the cubic and Taiwan authorities announced the "representative office".

Just after the neutral relations were downgraded by diplomatic relations, Lithuania was still arguing, saying that Lithuania still adhered to a Chinese policy, but it also "had the right to expand cooperation with Taiwan." In fact, cubic cubies still die so far.

Why does Lithuanian be provoked and provoked again and again

According to Sun Ping, chief investigator of the Asia -Europe issue of Xinhua News Agency, Lithuania is located along the Baltic coast with a population of less than 3 million and an area of ​​more than 60,000 square kilometers. Lithuania was once joined the Republic of the Soviet Union. After independence, he joined NATO and the European Union in 2004. Due to historical grievances and other factors, Lithuania and other Baltic countries are psychologically prominent in fear of Russia, highly depend on the United States in terms of security, have adopted a pro -American policy for a long time, and have a strong attitude towards Russia. Before the occurrence of Sino -US relations, Lithuania's policies for China were relatively pragmatic, and neutral relations have maintained a stable development for a long time. As the United States adopts the policy of curbing and suppressing China, Lithuania's policy of China has gradually deviated. During Trump's administration, Lithuania began to dance with the United States on some issues of China, such as supporting the "clean network" plan launched by the United States. In February 2019, Lithuanian security department called China "national security threat" in the report. Lithuanian President Sata said in July 2019 that it does not support the modernization of attracting China to invest in participating in the port of Klepeida, and China's investment "may threaten Lithuanian national security." In October 2020, Lithuania held a parliamentary election, and the governing alliance led by the Lithuanian Democratic Democratic Party in the middle and right-wing Motherland-Lithuanian Democratic Democratic Party came to power, and then Lithuania's policy style towards China has shifted significantly. After the Bayeng government came to power, it was the anti -China Alliance for the establishment of the anti -China alliance under the banner of common values ​​and other regions. Lithuania became the anti -China pioneer in European countries.

Lithuania will eat its own fruit

According to the Taiwan Strait.com report on November 22, 2021, overseas media commented that Lidao Wan dared to abandon its political commitments made in the communiqué of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. One of the reasons was that it had a high proportion of China trade. According to the data, although China is the largest trading country in Asia, the total bilateral trade last year was only 2.3 billion US dollars, less than 4%of Lithuania's total trade volume.

Chen Yixin, a well -known international issue scholar in Taiwan and former director of the American Institute of Tamkang University, believes that "Lithuania dares to provoke the principles of the middle of the middle, which is mainly encouraged by the United States and the initiative of the Tsai Ing -wen authorities."

Lithuania Foreign Minister Langzbelgis confirmed that Lithuania will sign a US -state import and export bank with a US $ 600 million export credit agreement. He also particularly emphasized: "The United States is intended to alleviate the financial loss caused by Lithuania due to Taiwan issues and Chinese disputes." Lithuania Economic and Innovation Minister Ao Mana has acknowledged that "the benefits of gain from Taiwan ... Lithuania has already been with Taiwanese companies. Cooperation".

Cube Xingfeng Zuoyu influence limited

Experts believe that the cubic anti -China acts seriously violate China's interests, greatly damage neutral cooperation, expose the short -sightedness and prejudice of Lithuania politicians, and the cube speculation will only lose.

Yang Bowen, an expert in China International Institute of International Issues, believes that neutral relations will not have a substantial impact on Sino -European relations. First, Lithuania has a limited volume and limited vocal volume in Europe, which is difficult to affect European public opinion. The second is that the views of other European countries and Lithuania are different and will not follow the trend. Most Central and Eastern European countries seek balance between big powers and have unintentional cooperative relationships with China. The third is that Lithuania played the "Taiwan card" to please the United States, and other countries were not necessary to follow up.

Experts believe that neutral relations have little impact on the overall cooperation between China-Central and Eastern European countries and the overall cooperation between China and Europe, because the importance of Lithuania in overall cooperation is limited.

According to data from the Ministry of Commerce of China, last year, China and Central and Eastern European countries exceeded US $ 100 billion, of which the trade with Lithuania accounted for less than 2%.

(Source of information: Xia Ke Island, Haike News, Huaxi Metropolis Daily, Taiwan Straits Network)

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