{"id":1161266,"date":"2021-12-27T13:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161266"},"modified":"2021-12-27T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:35:22","slug":"tiny-lithuania-stands-up-to-china-wont-be-bullied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiny-lithuania-stands-up-to-china-wont-be-bullied\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Lithuania Stands Up To China, Won\u2019t Be Bullied"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftiny-lithuania-stands-up-to-china-wont-be-bullied%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161266&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The tiny country of Lithuania, with only three million people, is standing up to the communist colossus China, a country of 1.4 billion people, by permitting the opening of a Taiwanese Representative Office in Vilnius, Lithuania\u2019s capital, triggering China to try to bully Lithuania into submission, sending Lithuania\u2019s ambassador home, recalling China\u2019s own ambassador and minimizing the diplomatic status of its embassy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReuters reports that China has also told multinationals such as Germany\u2019s car parts maker&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/CLR\">Continental<\/a>&nbsp;to stop using components made in Lithuania or face being denied access to the much more lucrative China market. China\u2019s foreign ministry denies the pressure, along with Lithuanian charges that its goods are being blocked,\u201d The Wall Street Journal noted, then pointed out that Australia wanted an international investigation into the origins of Covid-19, and didn\u2019t blink when China launched a trade war against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European Union has the bigger responsibility regarding Lithuania. If Australia can stand up to Beijing, surely the EU can. One way to send a signal might be for the EU to call on its members to withdraw from the 17+1, a Chinese diplomatic initiative aimed at Central and East European nations,\u201d The Journal added.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese state-run newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1242937.shtml\">Global Times<\/a> reported that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian threatened that Lithuania would wind up in the \u201cgarbage bin of history\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><em>Lithuania has recklessly violated the One China principle, a basic norm of international relations and a universal consensus held by the international community, a move destined to be spurned and opposed, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters on Monday. Lithuania stands on the opposite side of universal principles and justice which will never end well, Zhao said, noting that those who insist on acting in collusion with Taiwan secessionist forces will eventually be swept into the garbage bin of history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ripping the EU for its obeisance to China, Italian journalist Giulio Meotti <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/319347\">wrote<\/a>.\u201cWhen a single European country comes under attack, Brussels capitulates. It did not respond to Turkish threats at Greece\u2019s maritime borders. It let Poland alone face Belarus\u2019s \u2018hybrid war\u2019 with migrants on its border (it is no coincidence that Lithuania has built a wall on the border with Belarus to repel the onslaught of migrants). Italy has for years been abandoned to its fate in the face of migratory waves. And now little Lithuania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. National Security Council Indo-Pacific affairs advisor Kurt Campbell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/economy\/australian-economy\/how-chinas-trade-war-with-australia-backfired\/news-story\/45175246c2cf0111fb6bfd4e3af690fe\">acknowledged<\/a> the Aussies\u2019 courageous stand vis-\u00e0-vis China, \u201cI think China\u2019s preference would have been to break Australia. To drive Australia to its knees. I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s going to be the way it\u2019s going to play out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line: Beijing\u2019s attempt to bully Canberra has been a spectacular failure,\u201d USAsia Centre research director Jeffrey Wilson echoed, adding, \u201cIf this is what decoupling from China looks like, Australia\u2019s resilience suggests the costs are far lower than many have assumed. That fact will not be lost on other countries that have differences with China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny country of Lithuania, with only three million people, is standing up to the communist colossus China, a country of 1.4 billion people, by permitting the opening of a Taiwanese Representative Office in Vilnius, Lithuania\u2019s capital, triggering China to try to bully Lithuania into submission, sending Lithuania\u2019s ambassador home, recalling China\u2019s own ambassador and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}