Taiwan is making new friends in Europe. China isn’t happy about it.

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  1. I wouldn’t mind our governments to be friends,but it wouldn’t happen. We haven’t got the Lithuanian balls.

  2. Taiwanese people are also chinese and are friendly towards each other. I don’t buy the narrative that they ‘ll break ranks with the chinese to become europe’s lapdog (that’s what ‘friend’ means in european)

  3. *President Xi Jinping said reunification in a “peaceful manner” was “most in line with the overall interest of the Chinese nation, including Taiwan compatriots”.*

    OK, Pooh, recognise Taipei as the legitimate government of China and start working on taking orders from there.

    Chop, chop. You don’t want you social credits to plummet, do you?

  4. > “The EU has no issue forwarding a somewhat schizophrenic stance regarding China as at once a ‘rival’, ‘competitor’, and ‘partner’,” Curran said, referring to a document released by Brussels in 2019 that described China as all three.

    Yeah, people personalize interactions between countries way too much. There is no reason why on certain topics countries can’t be partners while being rivals in others. Sure, it is way more productive to always be partners, but until people abolish the concept of competition in favor of concept of cooperation it has to be this way.

  5. Eh doubt it will do much. I remember Tibet being a big topic here in Denmark 20 years ago. Literally no effect.

  6. Sometimes when I browse this sub I feel like some countries live rent free in some people’s head

  7. It is good that Taiwan is gaining more recognition and support from EU states, too bad it’s only coming from smaller and less influential countries so far, not from bigger countries like Germany, France or Italy.

  8. tbh people on the internet commeding Lithuania is pretty much the only positive side for Lithuania. Short term clout but long term i don’t know if it was a very effective plan long term. Right now it just highlights how EU and NATO members are yet again divided on a difficult issue.

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