Kina velikim korporacijama: Ili prekinte poslovanje sa Litvanijom, ili nema poslovanja u Kini

by **Hektorović** 11/12/2021, 19:17

Lithuania says China has told multinationals to boycott Vilnius over Taiwan row

Some multinationals with business in China have dumped suppliers in Lithuania

[url=safari-reader://www.independent.co.uk/author/john-odonnell]John O'Donnell[/url]
Kina velikim korporacijama: Ili prekinte poslovanje sa Litvanijom, ili nema poslovanja u Kini PRI214210841

Kina velikim korporacijama: Ili prekinte poslovanje sa Litvanijom, ili nema poslovanja u Kini PRI214210841

(REUTERS)

[url=safari-reader://www.independent.co.uk/topic/china]China[/url] has told multinationals to cut ties with [url=safari-reader://www.independent.co.uk/topic/lithuania]Lithuania[/url] or face being shut out of the Chinese market, according to officials and firms in the [url=safari-reader://www.independent.co.uk/topic/baltic]Baltic[/url] state, as a dispute over [url=safari-reader://www.independent.co.uk/topic/taiwan]Taiwan[/url] deepens.
[url=safari-reader://www.independent.co.uk/topic/beijing]Beijing[/url] downgraded its diplomatic ties with Lithuania last month after Taiwan opened a de facto [url=safari-reader://www.independent.co.uk/topic/embassy]embassy[/url] in Vilnius - its first in Europe in 18 years - defying a pressure campaign from China.
China views self-ruled and democratically governed Taiwan as its territory and has stepped up pressure on countries to downgrade or sever their relations with the island.
Lithuania’s vice-minister for foreign affairs Mantas Adomenas said some companies had cancelled contracts with suppliers in the EU country.
“(China) have been sending messages to multinationals that if they use parts and supplies from Lithuania, they will no longer be allowed to sell to the Chinese market or get supplies there,” he told Reuters.
Adomenas said that Chinese authorities were also curtailing exports to Lithuania, including by stopping export credit guarantees for Lithuanian imports from China.
"We will not bend to this pressure," he said. "What we decide to do, by calling Taiwan Taiwan, is up to Lithuania, not Beijing."
China’s foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Thursday that China followed international trade rules and again criticised Lithuania for its stance on Taiwan.
“It has created the false impression of Taiwan being separate from China, gravely harmed China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and started an egregious precedent among the international community,” he said.
“China will firmly safeguard its sovereignty, territorial integrity and core interests.”
Taiwan has other offices in Europe and the United States but they use the name of the city Taipei, avoiding reference to the island itself, unlike the new representative office in Vilnius.
Lithuania’s direct trade with China is minor, but its export-based economy is home to hundreds of firm that make goods such as furniture, food and clothing for multinationals that sell to China.
Chinese investment in Lithuania was estimated to be around just £70m last year, according to the Central and Eastern Europe Centre for Asian Studies. This amounts to around 0.4 per cent of Lithuania’s total foreign direct investment.
The United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade shows China’s exports to Lithuania reached £1bn in 2020, while China imported Lithuanian goods were worth £258m.
The Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, which represents thousands of firms, said some multinationals that buy goods from local suppliers were being targeted by China.
“This week was the first time we saw direct Chinese pressure on a supplier to drop Lithuanian-made goods,” said Vidmantas Janulevicius, the Confederation president. “Previously, we only had threats it could happen, now they became reality.”
“For us, the most painful part is that it’s a European company,” said Janulevicius, referring to the multinational. “Many Lithuanian businesses are suppliers for such companies.”
Lithuania is looking at setting up a fund to shield local companies from Chinese retaliation, a senior government official said.
Vilnius has also appealed to the European Commission for support, and the EU said on Wednesday that it as ready to “stand up against all types of political pressure and coercive measures” against any of its members.
The statement was in reaction to previous reports that Chinese customs have enforced lengthy procedures and delays to Lithuania exports to China.
“If the information received were to be confirmed, the EU would also assess the compatibility of China’s action with its obligations under the World Trade Organisation,” said the statement by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis.
Lithuania’s ruling coalition had agreed in November last year to support what it described as "those fighting for freedom" in Taiwan, putting its relations with China at risk.
Vilnius withdrew withdrew from a “17+1” group between China and some Central and Eastern European countries in May and urged all EU members to follow suit.
Janka Oertel, director of the Asia programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told The Independent in August that Lithuania was “making use of its very limited dependence on China” and that its shift reflected changing sentiment in Europe.

Reuters

by **Hektorović** 11/12/2021, 19:20

'Crazy, Tiny Country': China Media Lashes Out at Lithuania Over Taiwan
By [url=safari-reader://www.newsweek.com/authors/john-feng]John Feng [/url]On 8/10/21 at 11:57 AM EDT
The outspoken editor of a Chinese government mouthpiece published a tirade against Lithuania on Tuesday after the Baltic nation refused to reverse a decision to open a de facto Taiwan embassy in its capital.
Hu Xijin, who heads up the Chinese Communist Party tabloid the Global Times, expressed some surprise at Lithuania's resolve, which appears to have held in spite of the threat of a diplomatic fallout.
Hu lashed out at the Lithuanian government on Weibo, China's main social media service, and carried the same sentiments into an editorial on the state-owned tabloid's website.
"Lithuania is a crazy, tiny country full of geopolitical fears," he wrote, accusing Vilnius of siding with the U.S. against China. The Baltic state "has gone the furthest on the anti-China path in Europe," he said.
He added: "It is rare to see small countries like Lithuania that specifically seek to worsen relations with major powers."
The piece was published a few hours after the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced the decision to withdraw its ambassador from Vilnius, before demanding that Lithuania also recall its envoy in Beijing.
The ministry's statement pointed to plans for a new representative office in the Lithuanian capital under the name "Taiwan" instead of the usually ambiguous "Taipei," which the island nation uses for unofficial missions in the 57 countries where it has no formal diplomatic relations, including the United States.
"The Chinese Government expresses its categorical opposition to this move," said the Foreign Ministry.
In its own response, Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was "determined to pursue mutually beneficial ties with Taiwan like many other countries in the European Union and the rest of the world do."
Gabrielius Landsbergis, the country's foreign minister, told Reuters the government was considering its "next moves."
"Obviously we got the message but we stated our own message as well, that Lithuania will continue with its policy because it is not only Lithuania's policy we are pursuing, it is also the policy of many European countries," he was quoted as saying.
Taiwan has 23 offices in Europe, only one of which—in the Holy See—is an embassy under its formal name, the Republic of China.

EU and China Relations

Hu, of the Global Times, said Lithuania would "eventually pay the price for its evil deed of breaking international rules," but the view doesn't appear to be shared in the European Union.
Nabila Massrali, a spokesperson for the EU's diplomatic service, told Hong Kong's South China Morning Post that it was the first time China had recalled an envoy from a member state over the opening of a Taiwanese representative office.
The decision would "inevitably have an impact on overall EU-China relations," she told the newspaper.

"We regret the Chinese action and are following developments closely," she was quoted as saying. A Taiwan representative office in a member state isn't regarded as a breach of the EU's "one China" policy, she said.
Beijing's reaction, however, appears to show the importance of using ambiguous language to describe the democratic island it claims as one of its provinces. The new office in Vilnius would not only be Taipei's first in Europe in 18 years, it would also be the first to carry the name "Taiwan."

Kina velikim korporacijama: Ili prekinte poslovanje sa Litvanijom, ili nema poslovanja u Kini China-recalls-ambassador-lithuania

Kina velikim korporacijama: Ili prekinte poslovanje sa Litvanijom, ili nema poslovanja u Kini China-recalls-ambassador-lithuania

by RayMabus 11/12/2021, 19:21

Ima tema :

https://www.ex-iskon-pleme.com/t49537-litva-u-raljama-kineskog-zmaja

Dodao sam i kako je Nikaragva prekinula diplomatske odnose s Tajvanom.

by Leviathan2 12/12/2021, 01:46

Hektorović wrote:Lithuania says China has told multinationals to boycott Vilnius over Taiwan row
Some multinationals with business in China have dumped suppliers in Lithuania

lol. kinezi ih izbrisali iz carinskog spiskasad ne mogu trgovat s kinezima
ono, jednostavno ih izbrisali, ne postoje
rusi se smiju ko blesavi, litva sama sebi skocila u usta, nema kineskih kontejnera kroz litvu a to je lijepa lova za njihove luke
sad se zale eurokomisiji a ovi izrazili duboko zaljenje i budu rasmotrili o cem se radi :D
a cujem da su stisli u hagu i ukrajinu za 4,8 milijardi dolara koje su ulozili u motorsich
plus rusi u londonu za kredit koji je uzeo janukovic
lol
zive ljudi u zanimljiva vremena

by Sponsored content

Kina velikim korporacijama: Ili prekinte poslovanje sa Litvanijom, ili nema poslovanja u Kini