These days, Lithuanian, a small eastern European country flirting with Taiwan Province and Democratic Progressive Party authorities, has had another moth!

On November 29th, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that three diplomats of China’s representative office were classified as “persona non grata” for violating the Vienna Convention and Lithuanian domestic laws, and were ordered to leave the country within one week.

Not long ago, Lithuanian Prime Minister-designate Palutzkas, who won the general election this year, said that after taking office, he would seek to restore full diplomatic relations with Chinese mainland and repair the rift caused by the opening of the so-called “Taiwan Representative Office” by the Taiwan authorities in Vilnius.

The sharp contrast in attitude towards China makes people wonder, what is Lithuania going to make trouble?

Political manipulation of asking for trouble.

Provoke China and get hit in the face.

In October, 2020, the current Lithuanian government came to power, and under the instigation of the United States, it began to take frequent malicious actions against China, acting as the anti-China Depth Charge of the United States in Eastern Europe.

Lithuania trampled on the red line on the issue of Taiwan Province, which involves China’s core interests, and even allowed the Democratic Progressive Party authorities to set up a representative office in Lithuania in the name of “Taiwan Province”, openly provoking the one-China principle and being extremely arrogant.

China immediately took a series of powerful countermeasures and reduced the diplomatic relations between the two sides to “agency level”.

As a result, the export of Lithuanian main commodities such as cheese, wood and alcohol was blocked, some enterprises closed down, and the unemployment situation was further aggravated, which was even worse in the context of the overall economic downturn in Europe.

In this year’s election, the support rate of the motherland alliance-Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party fell sharply, and it suddenly stepped down.

The Taiwan authorities pay lip service but fail to do so.

At the beginning of the Lithuanian government clamoring for the listing of Taiwan Province, the Taiwan Province authorities shouted “Buy rum and support Lithuania”.

During Tsai Ing-Wen’s period, in order to “thank” Lithuania, Democratic Progressive Party forced ITRI to establish cooperation with Lithuanian technology company Teltonika to build a semiconductor factory in Vilnius.

After Lai Qingde took office, his attitude towards Lithuania gradually became cold, and he never fulfilled his promise to allocate funds, which led to the complete stagnation of land acquisition and factory construction in Taiwan Province. Later, he announced the cancellation of the chip cooperation project with Lithuania on the pretext of “power shortage”.

This made Lithuania extremely unhappy and felt cheated.

The doomsday barking of anti-China politicians.

The author notes that the decision to expel China diplomats was made by the current Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Lenz Belguise.

In 2020, after taking office as Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Lenz Belguise jumped particularly hard on the anti-China issue, which can be said to be an extremely hawkish politician who carried out the anti-China policy to the end.

In October this year, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won the parliamentary general election, and its vice-chairman Palutzkas will become the next prime minister.

After his victory, Palutzkas publicly stated that it was a “major diplomatic mistake” to allow the Taiwan Province authorities to set up a representative office in the name of “Taiwan Province”, and his government would seek to restore full diplomatic relations with China.

In this case, the current Lithuanian anti-China government, represented by Lenz Belguise, is unwilling to see it.

Therefore, in the few days before stepping down, Lenz Belguise resorted to the evil move of expelling China’s diplomats, with the intention of “stumbling” the new government by further worsening the neutral relationship.

At the same time, he can also re-submit the “warlords” to the United States to seek continuous support and more outlets for its future development.

Listen to what he says and watch what he does.

When Palutzkas proposed to seek to restore relations with China, he also set preconditions, and said that he “had no intention of making excessive concessions” in the process.

At the same time, he did not make a clear statement on whether to agree to change the name of the so-called “Taiwan Representative Office”.

For China, the position concerning core interests has always been the same: never give in on the issue of principle, and the door to dialogue is always open.

Whether Palutzkas, who is about to take office, chooses to continue playing dangerous diplomatic games or show his political wisdom and return to the track of rationality and pragmatism is not only related to the future of neutral relations, but also to Lithuania’s own development prospects.

I hope the new Lithuanian government can handle it clearly.