Dear Lithuanians, I just knew that your foreign minister is about to resign, so my Chinese compatriots are speculating that it must be because sanctions from China works, do you think so? I think the Belarus issue is just an excuse.
Dear Lithuanians, I just knew that your foreign minister is about to resign, so my Chinese compatriots are speculating that it must be because sanctions from China works, do you think so? I think the Belarus issue is just an excuse.
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he’s resigning because he failed to liberate west taiwan as is our plan
I know I’m replying to bait but the “sanctions” haven’t even been active long enough for that to be the case
He’s not going to resign. He would have resigned if he intended to. Now he just said that it’s up to PM to make the decision. Bear in mind that he is the leader of the party that the PM belongs to.
I believe it’s to do with sanctions regarding Belarusian potash exports that weren’t planned very well.
He was nominated and the youngest minister because he’s really good at sweet-talking his voter base. And because hes a grandson of a really famous politician.
But when it comes to work, it’s been a fk-up after fk-up after fk-up… His biggest problem is that because of youth he’s still naive as fk.
He can present his resignation papers, but because of his family connections no one is going to approve that resignation.
We also feel weird that Lithuanian foreign minister has to resign because he failed to excute a sanction ordered by the US. Is Lithuania an ally of the US?
I am Lithuanian and I didn’t know nor do I give a fuck that much and I think most of us like that, why are you asking this in a first place?
First of all, he won’t resign. He is de facto one of 2 most powerful people in Lithuanian politics (he’s a leader of biggest party in parliament, 2nd person would be prime minister, *and they are and have been working together for many years even before this cabinet*). If someone’s head has to fall for the scandal, it won’t be his. Unless he wants to retreat to the shadows and pull strings from there, but again – noone can force him to do so.
Secondly, these talks about resigning are 100% due to mistake on Belarus front and 0% related to China.
Last but not the least, Chinese sanctions doesn’t work and most likely never will. Even though China is huge, very small % of Lithuanian trade is with China, while the majority of our trade is with allied countries (EU, US). If, for example, Poland put the same sanctions instead of China, we would suffer *at least* 10 times more. It’s easy to “cut economic ties” when you had virtually none to begin with.
Resignation was put on the table because of belarus sanction breach by lithuanian rails. Resigning practice is a sign of westerl european level politics and morality, not admitting guilt.
The guilty are lithuanian railways, who are run primarily by former socialist party lithuanian socialdemocrats. Im sure its their PR and strategy that got the ruling coalition into a corner.
Ccp can go stick their dirty fingers up their ass, we dont care about them at all.
It has nothing to do with China. Chinese officials should stop thinking the world revolves around them.