Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung says the country doesn't oppose Lithuania restoring ties with China. A new government in Lithuania formed after recent elections plans to restore ties with China while scaling back engagement with Taiwan.
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00:00Taiwan's foreign minister says the country does not oppose Lithuania's decision to restore
00:06diplomatic ties with China.
00:08If China is willing to come back and develop normal relations with Lithuania, we will not
00:12sanction them again.
00:13Basically, we are not against it.
00:15So, the relationship between China and Lithuania is two different things.
00:19It can be developed at the same time.
00:21It's a win-win situation.
00:23Lithuania held its parliamentary elections last month.
00:27President Xi Jinping talked to Paul Lukas as its next prime minister.
00:30Paul Lukas recently said in an interview that Lithuania will restore ties with China.
00:36Relations suffered after Velnius allowed Taipei to change the name of its representative office
00:41nearly three years ago to include the word Taiwanese.