Published: December 8th, 2021,
Last updated: December 8th, 2021
Occasionally, strange „coincidences“ can occur in geopolitics. For instance, Lithuania has just disappeared from China’s customs system for a few days. Curiously, trade is interrupted with the same country that recently turned to Taiwan and thus stood up to the People’s Republic. There was talk of a technical error. It is so thinly veiled that it can only be read as a message to Vilnius. Amelie Richter took a closer look at the conflict between the Baltic EU nation and China. Beijing provides a prime example of the potential use of the EU’s new instrument against economic coercion.