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1 December 2023
China’s coercion is another opportunity for the EU to show that it cares about the member states and democratic values.
It was the beginning of 2022 and one of the Taiwanese institutions has published quite a strange post on its Facebook page. The National Development Council was giving advice on how to make use of rum in the kitchen — French toasts, steak, chocolate dessert and of course, a drink with rum and ginger ale. To someone who doesn’t follow international news, it probably might have seemed like a peculiar way of administering a page of the institution that normally deals with economics. For the Taiwanese, however, it was different. Many of them knew that the government was trying to motivate people to buy rum from Lithuania — to support a small European country that has decided to build stronger relations with Taiwan.
Despite the fact that it would infuriate China.
China was the original destination for the twenty thousand bottles of rum. Lithuania knew that it would probably get blocked at the Chinese customs office. After all, that’s something that has already happened with other Lithuanian exports to China.
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