@@martynas3722 I remember two interviews with minorities, living in Lithuania on some (I do not remember now) UA-cam channel few years ago. In both, among other question guests were asked what can they say about the main character feature of Lithuanians. Both guys were born in Lithuania and not in the mixed with Lithuanians familes, one was Lithuanian Tatar - a member of traditional and for hundreds years living here nation, and another was Georgian. Both perfect Lithuanian speakers (you couldn't tell them from ethnic Lithuanian if you only hear them) - both young men in their thirties or aproaching that age. The guy of a Tatar ancestry said he thinks that Lithuanians have some knightly attitude in them, in the terms of the code of honor and that they no mater what will stand for these principles. The Georgian guy's answer to the question "what is your opinion about us?" was "You are tough. You don't even know how tough you are". These interviews were long before the war in Ukrainiane and before Lithuania's support of Taiwan happened. Now I am starting to think that may be there is some truth in these two answers.
Thats not a gut, thats a dumbplaying own foreign policy. If u interfiering other internal policy so dont cry if russian interfiering ur internal policy too.
@@walhdamaskus2408 Russia will interfere anyway, believe me. We have 800yrs of history, and peace was "negotiated" many times. Somehow, their appetite never ceases and we have no basis to believe it will cease anytime soon. The only thing they understand is force and strength, if we don't have it while being on our own, collective strenght will do just fine
beautiful to see small countries that despite being so far apart and not having any cultural ties to each other can still unite like this to stand up to a bully, makes me a bit choked up thinking about it
In time, the EU will morph to be the tyrant it is trying to defeat. The UN started off as a peace seeking organization. Not any more. Lord Acton said, Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
@@Vidma258 When I wrote it, I wasn't thinking of the mutual support of Taiwan and Lithuania. I was thinking of the uniting of many countries (EU) to stand against the bully. I agree with you that my comment is totally out if context..
Id say people in any country (bar one) feels for Taiwan and its people. Its just difficult to express that in any official capacity without tantrums. I like that we doing this and i understand that our businesses are not so thrilled about it. It IS for the good of the people in the long run.
🇹🇼❤❤❤🇱🇹 the biggest support for Taiwan and Taiwanese people! proud that my country’s government and diplomats chose this path of the relationship with Taiwan, although it was criticized quite much by fellow Lithuanians, but the support really matters and i really understand it as Lithuanian. small nations can stand up against the bullies when united! 💕 great video mate!
Thank you, Lithuania! Taiwan has a tough diplomacy situation, country that supports Taiwan would undergo sanctions from China, it's really brave for Lithuania to stand up against a big country like China Taiwan should have more exchanges with Lithuania, whether it's technological or cultural
We know what it feels like to be in approximately the same situation, so those familiar with Taiwan had always been sympathetic to it. But it also takes the right political alignment to be able to act on our moral principles whilst side-lining selfish business and profit considerations, which fortunately happened after the 2020 election with young neo-idealists like Landsbergis and Armonaitė taking the wheel. PS We basically won the trade war anyway, see: "Despite Taiwan spat, Lithuania sees China exports grow"! With EU's mediation, China has been steadily removing the imposed trade barriers without us giving in on the naming issue, while at the same time we've gained the goodwill and investments from Taiwan. Furthermore, just yesterday the EU adopted the so-called Anti-coercion instrument, giving us options to retaliate against something like this should it happen again in the future.
Oh and by the way, there was this idea of "Dausuva" - starting a backup Lithuania (a colony abroad) to which our authoritarian government would've relocated in the event of a communist takeover of mainland Lithuania, thus mirroring Taiwan's position that much more closely. Most recently, the film Nova Lituania explored/parodied it.
Strangely enough on the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural map of 2020 which shows which cultures are closer to each other, Hungary, Lithuania and Czech Republic (being the area of the Catholic culture) are the closest ones to the Confucian area. Hungary is close to China, Czech Republic - to Japan and Lithuania (surprise surprise) - to Taiwan. Of course this is a coincidence. Or maybe not.
When it comes to missinddentifying which country the person is from, i totally understand. Before the Russo-ukrainian war, if i used to see a cyrilic text in game chats that felt like raging, i would say "shut up commmie" but now i dont know of they are russian or ukrainian, so i avoid saying anything. Then i realised, what if the person belarussian? Or some other country. So I understand if someone that has narrower eyes ends up being called chinese. Its easy to missidentify such a thing. However when the person KNOWS where u are from (lets say lithuania) and says "isn that just russia"? Then yes it should be a disgusting thing to hear. Im also starting to recognise korean,chinese, japanese alphabet, they are actually different! Some are more "bubbly", some look more italicized.....
A nice summary of this recently found friendship, nicely done man. 💪 I think this topic is a bit divisive in Lithuania, folks have varying opinions on China as a whole. For one, I wouldn't yet call Taiwan as a "brother from another mother". In my opinion, that title could land well with Georgia and her people due to us being part of the USSR once and having good understanding about each other and overall how our countries interact. That said, if the trend continues, Taiwan certainly could become a sibling nation for sure. For now, I think we have a very solid friendship and I hope that continues. On top of that, I think it's good what our government did in regards to the Taiwanese office. It is unfortunate that regular people and their businesses suffered as a consequence, but in the long run it's for the better. China is just another arrogant, pampered state with ego so large it's visible from the Andromeda galaxy. Nothing good comes from relying on the partnerships with such states, see Russia for reference. And also when they got super upset with us, we had plenty of support coming from our European family, US and even as far away as Australia. This even lead to EU adopting legislations recently as a response to this incident. We aren't alone. CCP keyboard warriors can only watch & weep. Best of luck to the Taiwanese people in their struggle. 💪
What kind of regular people and their businesses suffered? Contain yourself from spreading authoritarian BS. People doing business in authoritarian states know about higher risk of losing everything, but they also get to make more money. Those people were so loud about " regular people and their businesses suffering" that you missed that the Lithuanian economy gained more out of this that lost.
@@Moliugas89 I'd be an impressive display of blindness to miss the gains. Odd that you'd categorise this as "spreading authoritarian bs" rather than a well-intended acknowledgement of a temporary loss for a few in exchange for a short and long term gains for many. Each to their own though. 🤷
Let's see. 2 decades ago would make it 2003. I visited Lithuania in 1991 just after the Russian tanks were stopped in Vilnius. Correction at 9:20 in your video.
China don't like only Lithuanian government, but all simple Lithuanian people loved all East Asian countries. Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan. I'm from Lithuania and I love all East Asian counties except North Korea. Alao China is a very communist country and Taiwan is a democratic country, which is why I support Taiwan more. I also traveled to Taiwan and saw how Taiwan love Lithuanian people. I really respect Taiwan for that
Hey, this comment is completely off the video topic, but I just heard this myth from my friend that only if you're fluent in Lithuanian you can understand this phrase: kai žali agrastai būna žali, jie būna raudoni. Can you understand it without using translator?
the word "žali/žalias" in lithuanian, means both raw, or under-ripe, to describe the condition of a foodstuff or anything really, and the colour green. So to translate this word for word, would be: Kai žali agrastai būna žali, jie būna raudoni. When green gooseberries are unripe/raw, they (appear) are red.
I am a citizen of the UK and would like to say that small countries, which, lets face it, these days include the UK, should stick together. So well done Lithuania and Taiwan. We face difficult times with Adolf Putin invading Ukraine and his arse licker, Trump, in danger of becoming US president again. We must stick together and support each other against international bullies.
No, we are not china in any capacity. Please brush up on your WW2 history, specifically Treaty of San Francisco. We are however tho, in trusteeship to what was then Republic of China as per “General Order One” per General McArthur of the allied forces. Declaration as an sovereign state in recent years would destabilize regional security, resulting in war with communist china. Leading to international community seeing Taiwan as an international trouble maker.
As a Taiwanese living in Vilnius, thanks for your video to introduce the relationship between Lithuania and my country 😊
😩 加把勁啊，多解釋一下舊金山和約跟第一軍事命令。老是被當「中華世界民主燈塔」、不是好事。
Lithuania somehow always somehow the guts to do the right thing. ❤ and admiration from 🇱🇻
It's in our DNA to have some bravado :D
@@martynas3722 I remember two interviews with minorities, living in Lithuania on some (I do not remember now) UA-cam channel few years ago. In both, among other question guests were asked what can they say about the main character feature of Lithuanians. Both guys were born in Lithuania and not in the mixed with Lithuanians familes, one was Lithuanian Tatar - a member of traditional and for hundreds years living here nation, and another was Georgian. Both perfect Lithuanian speakers (you couldn't tell them from ethnic Lithuanian if you only hear them) - both young men in their thirties or aproaching that age. The guy of a Tatar ancestry said he thinks that Lithuanians have some knightly attitude in them, in the terms of the code of honor and that they no mater what will stand for these principles. The Georgian guy's answer to the question "what is your opinion about us?" was "You are tough. You don't even know how tough you are". These interviews were long before the war in Ukrainiane and before Lithuania's support of Taiwan happened. Now I am starting to think that may be there is some truth in these two answers.
@@fidenemini111 Thank you for these words. I try to live up to it
Thats not a gut, thats a dumbplaying own foreign policy. If u interfiering other internal policy so dont cry if russian interfiering ur internal policy too.
@@walhdamaskus2408 Russia will interfere anyway, believe me. We have 800yrs of history, and peace was "negotiated" many times. Somehow, their appetite never ceases and we have no basis to believe it will cease anytime soon. The only thing they understand is force and strength, if we don't have it while being on our own, collective strenght will do just fine
beautiful to see small countries that despite being so far apart and not having any cultural ties to each other can still unite like this to stand up to a bully, makes me a bit choked up thinking about it
In time, the EU will morph to be the tyrant it is trying to defeat. The UN started off as a peace seeking organization. Not any more. Lord Acton said, Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
@@draugami how is this related to my comment ?
@@Vidma258 When I wrote it, I wasn't thinking of the mutual support of Taiwan and Lithuania. I was thinking of the uniting of many countries (EU) to stand against the bully. I agree with you that my comment is totally out if context..
Id say people in any country (bar one) feels for Taiwan and its people. Its just difficult to express that in any official capacity without tantrums. I like that we doing this and i understand that our businesses are not so thrilled about it. It IS for the good of the people in the long run.
for communism virtually anything can become tantrum. until you yourself become tantrum and unacceptable.
🇹🇼❤❤❤🇱🇹
the biggest support for Taiwan and Taiwanese people!
proud that my country’s government and diplomats chose this path of the relationship with Taiwan, although it was criticized quite much by fellow Lithuanians, but the support really matters and i really understand it as Lithuanian. small nations can stand up against the bullies when united! 💕
great video mate!
I love Taiwan 💚
Aš myliu Taivaną!
我愛台灣！
Never give up and stay together in unity is a main thing against tyrant regimes. No breaking of people freedoms
My boy laowhy. Great video.
Thank you, Lithuania!
Taiwan has a tough diplomacy situation, country that supports Taiwan would undergo sanctions from China, it's really brave for Lithuania to stand up against a big country like China
Taiwan should have more exchanges with Lithuania, whether it's technological or cultural
ah nice, you watch Laowhy86 :D
We know what it feels like to be in approximately the same situation, so those familiar with Taiwan had always been sympathetic to it. But it also takes the right political alignment to be able to act on our moral principles whilst side-lining selfish business and profit considerations, which fortunately happened after the 2020 election with young neo-idealists like Landsbergis and Armonaitė taking the wheel.
PS We basically won the trade war anyway, see: "Despite Taiwan spat, Lithuania sees China exports grow"! With EU's mediation, China has been steadily removing the imposed trade barriers without us giving in on the naming issue, while at the same time we've gained the goodwill and investments from Taiwan. Furthermore, just yesterday the EU adopted the so-called Anti-coercion instrument, giving us options to retaliate against something like this should it happen again in the future.
Oh and by the way, there was this idea of "Dausuva" - starting a backup Lithuania (a colony abroad) to which our authoritarian government would've relocated in the event of a communist takeover of mainland Lithuania, thus mirroring Taiwan's position that much more closely. Most recently, the film Nova Lituania explored/parodied it.
Strangely enough on the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural map of 2020 which shows which cultures are closer to each other, Hungary, Lithuania and Czech Republic (being the area of the Catholic culture) are the closest ones to the Confucian area. Hungary is close to China, Czech Republic - to Japan and Lithuania (surprise surprise) - to Taiwan. Of course this is a coincidence. Or maybe not.
When it comes to missinddentifying which country the person is from, i totally understand. Before the Russo-ukrainian war, if i used to see a cyrilic text in game chats that felt like raging, i would say "shut up commmie" but now i dont know of they are russian or ukrainian, so i avoid saying anything. Then i realised, what if the person belarussian? Or some other country. So I understand if someone that has narrower eyes ends up being called chinese. Its easy to missidentify such a thing. However when the person KNOWS where u are from (lets say lithuania) and says "isn that just russia"? Then yes it should be a disgusting thing to hear.
Im also starting to recognise korean,chinese, japanese alphabet, they are actually different! Some are more "bubbly", some look more italicized.....
As Lithuanian i’m proud for my country position!
As a lithuanian i will confirm calling us russian is VERY offensive.
A nice summary of this recently found friendship, nicely done man. 💪
I think this topic is a bit divisive in Lithuania, folks have varying opinions on China as a whole. For one, I wouldn't yet call Taiwan as a "brother from another mother". In my opinion, that title could land well with Georgia and her people due to us being part of the USSR once and having good understanding about each other and overall how our countries interact. That said, if the trend continues, Taiwan certainly could become a sibling nation for sure. For now, I think we have a very solid friendship and I hope that continues.
On top of that, I think it's good what our government did in regards to the Taiwanese office. It is unfortunate that regular people and their businesses suffered as a consequence, but in the long run it's for the better. China is just another arrogant, pampered state with ego so large it's visible from the Andromeda galaxy. Nothing good comes from relying on the partnerships with such states, see Russia for reference. And also when they got super upset with us, we had plenty of support coming from our European family, US and even as far away as Australia. This even lead to EU adopting legislations recently as a response to this incident. We aren't alone. CCP keyboard warriors can only watch & weep.
Best of luck to the Taiwanese people in their struggle. 💪
What kind of regular people and their businesses suffered? Contain yourself from spreading authoritarian BS. People doing business in authoritarian states know about higher risk of losing everything, but they also get to make more money. Those people were so loud about " regular people and their businesses suffering" that you missed that the Lithuanian economy gained more out of this that lost.
@@Moliugas89 I'd be an impressive display of blindness to miss the gains. Odd that you'd categorise this as "spreading authoritarian bs" rather than a well-intended acknowledgement of a temporary loss for a few in exchange for a short and long term gains for many. Each to their own though. 🤷
Taiwan as a sister, you described it perfectly. Stay strong Taiwan, long live and prosper.
love how you're bringing light to these things!
9:20 Just over two decades ago? Bro, it's already been full solid 3 decades ago.
Over 3 decades already! 🎉
Let's see. 2 decades ago would make it 2003. I visited Lithuania in 1991 just after the Russian tanks were stopped in Vilnius. Correction at 9:20 in your video.
Free Tibet
Don’t worry about the CCP hates you. I lived under the CCP in my own country. I hated the the CCP and love Taiwan and Lithuania.
“Better dead than red” Rose Namajunas, she is one of my favorite Lithuanian(american)!
As Lithuanian i understand and support Taiwan🇹🇼🇱🇹 Thanks for the video!
Free Taiwan 🇹🇼
Thanks for video
Thank you for your good work! Just wanted to comment to counter the five cent army influences.
I just want to correct you, we got out independence over 3 decades ago.
LOL, that means BASTARD.😀
🤣
I love that Taiwan is our (Lithuanias) sister from another mister 🇱🇹❤🇹🇼
Brotherr from another mother 🇱🇹🤝🇹🇼
China don't like only Lithuanian government, but all simple Lithuanian people loved all East Asian countries. Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan. I'm from Lithuania and I love all East Asian counties except North Korea. Alao China is a very communist country and Taiwan is a democratic country, which is why I support Taiwan more. I also traveled to Taiwan and saw how Taiwan love Lithuanian people. I really respect Taiwan for that
I like this one :) makes me feel proudness or similar feeling :)
Friendshoring is the way of the future
Hey, this comment is completely off the video topic, but I just heard this myth from my friend that only if you're fluent in Lithuanian you can understand this phrase: kai žali agrastai būna žali, jie būna raudoni. Can you understand it without using translator?
No, it's actually about blueberies:
- Kokios čia uogos?
- Mėlynės?
- O tai kodėl jos ne mėlynos, o raudonos?
- Todėl, kad jos dar žalios.
@@fidenemini111 kad labiau apie juoduosius serbentus ;)
@@vytautassulcas6494 vis serbentai yra žali kol žali.
the word "žali/žalias" in lithuanian, means both raw, or under-ripe, to describe the condition of a foodstuff or anything really, and the colour green. So to translate this word for word, would be:
Kai žali agrastai būna žali, jie būna raudoni.
When green gooseberries are unripe/raw, they (appear) are red.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nothers from a Mother Brother
I wish that Latvia would develop it's relationship with Taiwan over the communist China.
I am a citizen of the UK and would like to say that small countries, which, lets face it, these days include the UK, should stick together. So well done Lithuania and Taiwan. We face difficult times with Adolf Putin invading Ukraine and his arse licker, Trump, in danger of becoming US president again. We must stick together and support each other against international bullies.
K let's follow china's 1 rule , and I say Taiwan is the Only and true china.
bot already?
@@MrVafflisread it again :)
Taiwan is the true China 🇹🇼
@@MrVafflis Taiwan (Previously Republic of China) used to "own" the current mainland China.
No, we are not china in any capacity. Please brush up on your WW2 history, specifically Treaty of San Francisco. We are however tho, in trusteeship to what was then Republic of China as per “General Order One” per General McArthur of the allied forces.
Declaration as an sovereign state in recent years would destabilize regional security, resulting in war with communist china. Leading to international community seeing Taiwan as an international trouble maker.
Taiwan number 1 :)