Chinese influence activities in Lithuania take place amid a gradual deterioration of the relationship since 2019 that became particularly acute in 2021.
Lithuania’s economic reliance on China has been on the rise in recent years, with its China-bound exports ranging from farm produce and beer to lasers, but analysts have sounded the alarm over the unaffordable fallout on Lithuania’s economy from its dangerous provocation against China by trampling on the One China principle.
Chinese experts said that while there have been no direct economic countermeasures yet against Lithuania, future countermeasures cannot be ruled out if Lithuania continues on the wrong path. Chinese officials have also said that Lithuania would pay a price for its mistake of challenging China s sovereignty.