Lithuanian PM says Taiwanese office brought no benefits but hurt ties with China (www.lrt.lt)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 24 Mar 05:44
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psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 24 Mar 05:56 collapse

“The main mistake was made when we rushed ahead […] and established an office under a name that no one else in the EU had used until now – thus finally severing all, even business, relations with China. What did this bring us? Exactly zero benefit from Taiwan and a significant negative one from China,” Ruginienė said in an interview with Lrytas.lt.

This does sounds like China is being a 3 years old here, throwing tantrums until they get what they want.

Tja@programming.dev on 24 Mar 07:36 next collapse

When it works, it works.

ViatorOmnium@piefed.social on 24 Mar 08:49 next collapse

That strategy has worked for the US and Russia for decades, why wouldn’t China try the same?

If the international community keeps rewarding bad behaviour - and there’s much worse behaviour than this being rewarded - then countries will misbehave.

Morphite88@thelemmy.club on 24 Mar 16:18 collapse

So everything is about business and benefits, forget recognizing the rights and independent sovereignty of a nation smh