Taiwan announced the new mission last month,saying it would be called the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania,the first time the island’s name has been used for one of its offices in Europe,as normally only “Taipei” is used.
Taiwan took part in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics under the name of “Chinese Taipei”.
Lithuania’s permission for the office to open under the name of Taiwan was done “in disregard of China’s repeated representations and articulation of potential consequences”,and severely undermines China’s sovereignty,the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday AEST.
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“The Chinese government expresses its categorical opposition to this move. China has decided to recall its ambassador to Lithuania and demanded the Lithuanian Government recall its ambassador to China,” it added.
“We urge the Lithuanian side to immediately rectify its wrong decision,take concrete measures to undo the damage,and not to move further down the wrong path.”