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 by AFP Staff Writers Vilnius (AFP) Dec 3, 2021
Lithuania on Friday said that China was blocking its exports in a row over the opening of a representative office for Taiwan in Vilnius earlier this year. China has already downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania and stopped issuing visas in the Baltic EU state in protest. "We regret the decision of the Chinese authorities," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda told reporters. Several Lithuanian companies and business leaders complained that their goods were not clearing customs in China. Vidmantas Janulevicius, president of Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, told local media he knew of five companies facing such a problem. "Lithuania is excluded from the customs system. It seems that such a country does not exist in the Chinese customs system anymore," Janulevicius said. The foreign ministry said in a statement that it would seek a European response. "Next week Lithuania will officially ask European Commission to get involved in defending Lithuania's interests over China's decision to stop accepting Lithuanian products," it said. The row centres on Vilnius's decision to allow Taiwan to open a representative office under its own name. Beijing baulks at any official use of the word Taiwan, lest it lend a sense of international legitimacy to the island, which China considers part of its territory. The opening of the Vilnius office is the latest sign that some Baltic and central European countries are seeking closer relations with Taiwan, even if that angers China. In May, Lithuania announced it was quitting China's 17+1 cooperation forum with central and eastern European states, calling it "divisive".
Beijing summons Japan envoy over ex-PM's 'erroneous' Taiwan remarks Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2021 Beijing summoned the Japanese ambassador to China over former prime minister Shinzo Abe's "extremely erroneous remarks" on Taiwan, the foreign ministry said Thursday, as tensions rise over the democratic island. With Chinese warplanes making historically high levels of incursions into Taiwan's air defence zone in recent months, fears among Western allies like the US and Japan have grown that Beijing could order an invasion, even if they consider it unlikely for now. Self-ruled Taiwan lives under ... read more
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