{"id":116,"date":"2026-02-06T03:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/116\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:51:20","slug":"in-diplomatic-u-turn-vilnius-rues-taiwan-de-facto-embassy-row-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/116\/","title":{"rendered":"In diplomatic U-turn, Vilnius rues Taiwan de facto embassy row with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The move enraged Beijing, which saw the use of \u201cTaiwanese\u201d \u2013 rather than Taipei \u2013 in the office\u2019s name as a breach of its one-China principle.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI believe that Lithuania really jumped in front of the train and lost,\u201d Ruginiene was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt was probably a huge mistake on Lithuania\u2019s part to think that if we offered something ourselves and were the first to do something, the world would suddenly appreciate it. Well, we tried in this case, we have the Taiwanese representative office, but the world did not appreciate it, no one appreciated it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The move enraged Beijing, which saw the use of \u201cTaiwanese\u201d \u2013 rather than Taipei \u2013 in the office\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[175,180,173,174,73,171,172,179,177,176,76,170,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vilnius","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-baltic-news-service","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-lithuania","14":"tag-november","15":"tag-september","16":"tag-taipei","17":"tag-taiwan","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-vilnius","20":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}