Earlier this week, Ruginienė told BNS that Lithuania had “jumped in front of a train and lost” by opening the Taiwanese Representative Office under that name without coordinating its actions with the EU and the United States.
Why do we keep aiming for a position as an underdog in Europe? We need to start standing up for fairness, not bending our backs for fascists and dictators.
Of course they do. They don’t want the idea of other countries no longer pretending Taiwan is not an independent country to gain traction at all.
Imagine being one of the largest countries and economies on the planet and being this butthurt about an island that never was yours. What they could have achieved if they didn’t entertain this ridiculous fixation for so long…
being this butthurt about an island that never was yours
What do you mean by this? Are you referring to the island being mostly inhabited by non-han natives before the split between the ROC and PRC?
From what I’ve seen up until now, the island was a close by colony to where the “defeated” remnants of the ROC escaped to at the end of the civil war.
…and the PRC never managed to extend their power to this island.
Up until this day, where a majority of the inhabitants don’t even consider themselves ‘Chinese’ anymore, nor want to live under the rule of the PRC.
And who could blame them? Hong Kong shows what happens when a part doesn’t align with the ideas of the PRC elites concerning the authoritarian state capitalism they still label ‘socialism’. :D
I am pretty sure they want Taiwan to open up the waterways between them and Taiwan.
The whole “it’s China” thing is for show. Same with Tibet, there is a ton of lithium there so “it’s China” is the excuse for that as well.
The water in Tibet is far more important.
Not for immediate profits and plans for expansion in energy storage.
Just for general survival of the planet.
But no government actually cares about that. That’s poor people problems.
