BEIJING: China announced it will recall its ambassador to Lithuania and demanded that the Lithuanian government recall its ambassador to China as a countermeasure in response to the Baltic country's act to allow the separatist Taiwan authorities to open a "representative office" under the name of "Taiwan."
Chinese observers called Taiwan's move a "serious" and "rarely seen" countermeasure against the vicious move of Lithuania in challenging China's core interests and sovereignty, and the possibility of a "diplomatic relations cut-off" cannot be ruled out if the Lithuanian government fails to correct its mistakes on the Taiwan question.