TAIPEI/VILNIUS—Taiwan’s leadership will host a group of Lithuanian lawmakers next week amid a deepening spat between Beijing and Vilnius about the Baltic state’s decision to allow the self-ruled island to open a de facto embassy.
Beijing downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania on Sunday in a show of anger over the de facto embassy move. The Chinese communist regime claims the island as its own, despite the fact that Taiwan is a de facto independent country, with its own military, democratically-elected government, and constitution.
