Earlier this week, Ruginienė told BNS that Lithuania had “jumped in front of a train and lost” by opening the Taiwanese Representative Office under that name without coordinating its actions with the EU and the United States.
Earlier this week, Ruginienė told BNS that Lithuania had “jumped in front of a train and lost” by opening the Taiwanese Representative Office under that name without coordinating its actions with the EU and the United States.
I am pretty sure they want Taiwan to open up the waterways between them and Taiwan.
The whole “it’s China” thing is for show. Same with Tibet, there is a ton of lithium there so “it’s China” is the excuse for that as well.
They reinvaded Tibet decades before anyone had any use for lithium.
Tibet was conquered by the Mongols in 1240 and subsequently ruled by the Chinese branch of the Mongolian empire. The succeding dynasties “inherited” the “historical” claim to Tibet, though only the Qing dynasty and the Communists were strong enough to enforce this claim. It’s plain imperialism.
The water in Tibet is far more important.
Not for immediate profits and plans for expansion in energy storage.
Just for general survival of the planet.
But no government actually cares about that. That’s poor people problems.
If China starts diverting water in Tibet it will generate immediate profits, and immediate tensions with India.