Taiwan-Lithuania Ties Come Under Scrutiny | TaiwanPlus News

Opposition KMT Lawmaker Wang Hung-wei says Lithuania strongarmed Taiwan into giving it financial assistance. Taiwan's foreign ministry says that isn't true.

📹 Reporter(s): Howard Chang/Leslie Liao

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Lithuania doesn't even have diplomatic relations with the ROC. The DPP gov not only gives our semiconductor tech (plus $$) to it for free, invests in & loans $ to its solar panel business, but also buys wheat worth of 790 million from it. What do we get back? Moral support?

Lithuania opens a trade representative office in Taipei, this office name does not even include Taiwan or Taipei.

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The DPP gov said that after Lithuania sets up a representative office, the "Lithuania Products Exhibition Center" would be handed over to Lithuanian for funding and management. How's the progress? When will it stop being funded by our tax dollars?

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Relations should be fair. The DPP gov is generous with giving away our tax dollars (not out of their own pockets). The flour companies do not want to purchase those wheat from Lithuania (prices are not transparent and the quality is not necessarily as good as the US's). So the DPP gov subsidizes the firms and allocates wheat for them to buy.

Also the distance & shipping time.