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Baltics blast China diplomat for questioning sovereignty of ex-Soviet states

Diplomats stick to the script 100% of the time and never misspoke?
Never said %100. But you cannot and have not disproved what I said no matter how many mistakes you can pull out.

I love how you throw your shitty opinion out then call it a fact.
You guys are tops at putting your shiddy opinions as fact. No wonder we were inundated with 'Chinese physics' at one point.


Why bother with the headache of legalistic arguments? Some countries are just too stupid and don't deserve to have sovereignty, like Ukraine.
But Lu Shaye tried when he brought up 'international law' even though he could not pull even one shred out of his a55.

I'm loving the Chinese; the world was boring before they started to take positions.
Pakistan should be careful. Pakistan is a recent entrant into the global community and is supposedly 'friendly' to China. Do not be surprised if somehow China finds a way to say Pakistan 'belongs' to China. :enjoy:
 
Never said %100. But you cannot and have not disproved what I said no matter how many mistakes you can pull out.
There is nothing to disprove because it's your bullshit opinion. Onus is on you to prove your point.
You guys are tops at putting your shiddy opinions as fact. No wonder we were inundated with 'Chinese physics' at one point.
You've been doing exactly as you accuse others of in this tread. Is "Americunt logic" or "South Vietnam PTSD" making you lose your marbles?
 
There is nothing to disprove because it's your bullshit opinion. Onus is on you to prove your point.
Even your own disagreed with you in posts 6 and 9. Lu Shaye said what Xi Jinping INSTRUCTED him to say just in case anyone bring up the issue.

 
If these countries are going to cast doubt on China's sovereignty over Taiwan, China's going to cast down on their existence as countries independent from Russia.
The thread's title said 'Baltics' plural. So how many countries are calling for China to invade Taiwan even though they have diplomatically disavowed Taiwan? NKR and Russia? And how many of them are willing to risk their peoples' lives in China's objectives. Certainly not Russians and North Koreans. Small countries around the world sympathizes with Taiwan even though they dare not express it. They know from their own histories that small countries are always vulnerable. They believe that Taiwan is a sovereign state.
 
yay now China irritates the former Eastern bloc.

Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to France, said that former Soviet countries have no ‘effective status’ in international law.

The Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are demanding an explanation from Beijing after China’s top envoy to France questioned the independence of former Soviet countries like Ukraine.

Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to France, said in an interview on Friday with French television network LCI that former Soviet countries have no “effective status” in international law.

Asked whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine, Lu said that “it depends how you perceive the problem,” arguing that it was historically part of Russia and offered to Ukraine by former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

“In international law, even these ex-Soviet Union countries do not have the status, the effective [status] in international law, because there is no international agreement to materialize their status as a sovereign country,” he said.

The comments sparked outrage among Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia — three former Soviet countries.

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs said in a tweet that his ministry summoned “the authorized chargé d’affaires of the Chinese embassy in Riga on Monday to provide explanations. This step is coordinated with Lithuania and Estonia.”

He called the comments “completely unacceptable,” adding: “We expect explanation from the Chinese side and complete retraction of this statement.”

Margus Tsahkna, Estonia’s foreign minister, called the comments “false” and “a misinterpretation of history.”

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s foreign minister, shared the interview on Twitter with the comment: “If anyone is still wondering why the Baltic States don’t trust China to “broker peace in Ukraine,” here’s a Chinese ambassador arguing that Crimea is Russian and our countries’ borders have no legal basis.”

Kyiv also pushed back strongly against the ambassador’s comments.

“It is strange to hear an absurd version of the ‘history of Crimea’ from a representative of a country that is scrupulous about its thousand-year history,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, said in a tweet on Sunday. “If you want to be a major political player, do not parrot the propaganda of Russian outsiders.”

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called the remarks “unacceptable” in a tweet on Sunday. “The EU can only suppose these declarations do not represent China’s official policy,” Borrell said.

France in a statement on Sunday stated its “full solidarity” with all the allied countries affected, which it said had acquired their independence “after decades of oppression,” according to Reuters. “On Ukraine specifically, it was internationally recognized within borders including Crimea in 1991 by the entire international community, including China,” a foreign ministry spokesperson was quoted as saying.

The foreign ministry spokesperson also called on China to clarify whether the ambassador’s statement reflects its position or not.

The row comes ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, where relations with China are on the agenda.

Baltics are targeted, central asia former soviet union countries have treaty with Russia, Ukraine exited the treaty with Russia.
 
Damage is done. Now, China can try to put some salve (money) on the diplomatic wound, but all that will do is tamp down the public furor. You can bet whatever annual salary you make that behind closed doors, everyone took what Lu Shaye said seriously. No country will take the Vegas odds that it was an accident. All of Asia will now re-assess their sovereignty status in relations to China.
 

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