Because there is no unity, everyone thinks about its own benefits
Money, China is major trade partners in almost all EU countries
EU is slow on whatever they do or react!
>But only 40 out of 700 MEPs signed the letter. This shows that support for Lithuania in the EU is much lower than could have been expected, according to the country’s MEP Juozas Olekas.
EU doesn’t care of Lithuania at all. EU is so weak.
Edit: why I get downvoted for just saying EU doesn’t care of Lithuania?
Well, where was the EU (including Lithuania) during our diplomatic spat with China?
Germany (government and citizens alike) has trouble thinking geopolitically, it’s the business side of things that makes the most sense to them. The result is what we experience in the recent years where Turkey, Russia, Belarus and China can bully EU members with near impunity because Germany doesn’t want to risk their business interests (be it manufacturing, energy or trade).
If you make a decision alone you can take the retaliation alone.
Why even try to have a common foreign policy if everyone can just do what they want (knowing the impact on themselves will be little) and then expect others to follow them?
Some people here really surprise me. China is pressuring EU companies to do their bidding(pressuring Lithuania in this case) and you (I assume also part of EU) are going one form or the other of “Lithuania has not consulted us so whatever”.
China has your businesses by the b*lls, if Commies tell them to jump – they will ask “how high”. And your governments(your representatives) are sitting with thumbs up their ass*s.
Sure it’s all to Lithuania’s detriment now(sure, f*ck us, whatever), how about tomorrow? You are already not in control of your businesses and you sit there yapping about Lithuania? If anything be happy, you got an early warning, do something about it, not for Lithuania – for YOURSELVES.
Because Germany is acting like the UK prior to the brexit.
This entire fiasco has been pointless. It’s too late now but there really is no reason not to just continue to call Taiwan Taipei. They haven’t declared independence.
Has EU shielded anyone against China so far? Is EU even near that kind of unity?
This looks like starting a lost war on your own to go crying to your apathic bro when you get the predictable ass kicking then whine about how the apathic bro is apathic.
Why? Just for some pocket money.
Where’s the urgency? It would be another thing if China had actually managed to inflict significant or even noticeable damage but between investiments from Taiwan and the US Lithuania actually came up ahead, rushing an escalation now will not only fuck up the case that we will need to bring to the WTO but will also cause orders of magnitude more indirect damage to Lithuania’s economy than China could ever hope to do directly.
Something like this happened in CZ, too. It was like this: Certain politicians and their friends are very publicily against Russia, due to home-politic populism. The same politicians were patted on the head in EU, because their policies are very pro-eu.
Then there was a leak from secret services, concerning a blow-up of a munition magazine. This leak attributed the explosion to Russia. Those politicians started great campaign (instead trying to sniff the leak) against Russia, counting on EU approval. Lol.
Poor dears confused pro-eu arse-kissing (approved) with domestic antirussian campain (not so approved, if Germans are against). Cue cold shower. Maybe similar confusion affected Lithuanian politicians, too?
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Because there is no unity, everyone thinks about its own benefits
Money, China is major trade partners in almost all EU countries
EU is slow on whatever they do or react!
>But only 40 out of 700 MEPs signed the letter. This shows that support for Lithuania in the EU is much lower than could have been expected, according to the country’s MEP Juozas Olekas.
EU doesn’t care of Lithuania at all. EU is so weak.
Edit: why I get downvoted for just saying EU doesn’t care of Lithuania?
Well, where was the EU (including Lithuania) during our diplomatic spat with China?
Germany (government and citizens alike) has trouble thinking geopolitically, it’s the business side of things that makes the most sense to them. The result is what we experience in the recent years where Turkey, Russia, Belarus and China can bully EU members with near impunity because Germany doesn’t want to risk their business interests (be it manufacturing, energy or trade).
https://warontherocks.com/2021/05/a-millennial-considers-the-new-german-problem-after-30-years-of-peace/ this sheds some light in the problem.
If you make a decision alone you can take the retaliation alone.
Why even try to have a common foreign policy if everyone can just do what they want (knowing the impact on themselves will be little) and then expect others to follow them?
Some people here really surprise me. China is pressuring EU companies to do their bidding(pressuring Lithuania in this case) and you (I assume also part of EU) are going one form or the other of “Lithuania has not consulted us so whatever”.
China has your businesses by the b*lls, if Commies tell them to jump – they will ask “how high”. And your governments(your representatives) are sitting with thumbs up their ass*s.
Sure it’s all to Lithuania’s detriment now(sure, f*ck us, whatever), how about tomorrow? You are already not in control of your businesses and you sit there yapping about Lithuania? If anything be happy, you got an early warning, do something about it, not for Lithuania – for YOURSELVES.
Because Germany is acting like the UK prior to the brexit.
This entire fiasco has been pointless. It’s too late now but there really is no reason not to just continue to call Taiwan Taipei. They haven’t declared independence.
Has EU shielded anyone against China so far? Is EU even near that kind of unity?
This looks like starting a lost war on your own to go crying to your apathic bro when you get the predictable ass kicking then whine about how the apathic bro is apathic.
Why? Just for some pocket money.
Where’s the urgency? It would be another thing if China had actually managed to inflict significant or even noticeable damage but between investiments from Taiwan and the US Lithuania actually came up ahead, rushing an escalation now will not only fuck up the case that we will need to bring to the WTO but will also cause orders of magnitude more indirect damage to Lithuania’s economy than China could ever hope to do directly.
Something like this happened in CZ, too. It was like this: Certain politicians and their friends are very publicily against Russia, due to home-politic populism. The same politicians were patted on the head in EU, because their policies are very pro-eu.
Then there was a leak from secret services, concerning a blow-up of a munition magazine. This leak attributed the explosion to Russia. Those politicians started great campaign (instead trying to sniff the leak) against Russia, counting on EU approval. Lol.
Poor dears confused pro-eu arse-kissing (approved) with domestic antirussian campain (not so approved, if Germans are against). Cue cold shower. Maybe similar confusion affected Lithuanian politicians, too?