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China versus Lithuania
DerekJohnson
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China versus Lithuania.
Over the weekend, Lithuania withdrew from a cooperation forum involving China and 17 Central and Eastern European states and called on other EU members to follow suit. On Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry tried to shrug it off, calling Lithuania's move an "isolated incident" that wouldn't derail Chinese cooperation with the grouping. But an article in the hawkish Global Times ripped into Lithuania, saying the country is "not qualified to attack China and this is not the way a small country should act" and that "when such a small country is aggressive ... it will invite trouble." This sort of rhetoric will resonate far beyond the Baltics. A similar statement from China's foreign minister in 2010 directed at "small countries" in Southeast Asia, for example, was considered an inflection point in regional perceptions of Chinese coercion.
Over the weekend, Lithuania withdrew from a cooperation forum involving China and 17 Central and Eastern European states and called on other EU members to follow suit. On Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry tried to shrug it off, calling Lithuania's move an "isolated incident" that wouldn't derail Chinese cooperation with the grouping. But an article in the hawkish Global Times ripped into Lithuania, saying the country is "not qualified to attack China and this is not the way a small country should act" and that "when such a small country is aggressive ... it will invite trouble." This sort of rhetoric will resonate far beyond the Baltics. A similar statement from China's foreign minister in 2010 directed at "small countries" in Southeast Asia, for example, was considered an inflection point in regional perceptions of Chinese coercion.
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Joe drove a F150 and looked really cool doing it
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I like Lithuania in the upset here.
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The fucking Soviets breaking up before the Dream Team could exact their revenge always pissed me off
Lithuania got the Silver did they not? I know that the US still had to beat Finland and MJ went for 50 -
I was listening to a Free Range American(Black Rifle Coffee) podcast where Logan Stark was interviewing this American reporter who’s been in Ukraine for years, and he was talking a lot about what a shitshow Eastern Europe is. Apparently Belarus is getting pretty chummy with Russia and China, and because of where it’s located, if they went commie, they could cut off a couple NATO countries and basically start WW3. CSB
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US put the beatdown on Croatia and Toni Kukoc in the gold medal game.RaceBannon said:The fucking Soviets breaking up before the Dream Team could exact their revenge always pissed me off
Lithuania got the Silver did they not? I know that the US still had to beat Finland and MJ went for 50
Lithuania beat the United (Russian) team in the bronze medal game.
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It wasn't the same to beat the remnants of the commie empire. It just wasn't
