Europe's charting a new way forward for its relations with China, but officials are wary about the risk of retaliation if they get it wrong.
Lithuania, a Baltic nation in the northeast of Europe, is a good example of a nation aware of potential China retaliation. In 2021, it became the first European country to have a Taiwanese representation office that went under the name Taiwan. Most nations in the region use the name of the city Taipei.
"For years the West said economic cooperation would persuade dictators to support [a] rules based international order. But all we did was feed their economies while letting them break all the rules. China is betting that we will repeat this mistake. It's time to try something else," Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania foreign affairs minister, said on Twitter in April.groups Huawei and ZTE.
An EU official, who did not want to be named due to the sensitive nature of the issue, said: "We haven't seen the same level of retaliation" off the back of that announcement when compared to individual countries.
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