Lithuania’s Heroic Stand Against China: The World Should Listen

Lithuania’s Heroic Stand Against China: The World Should Listen
A street in the Uzupis neighborhood amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Sept. 28. 2020. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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Lithuania is a small Baltic country with a population of 2.8 million and a land area of 65,300 square kilometers. Compare that to China’s 1.4 billion population and 9.6 million square kilometers. Yet, Lithuania has taken a series of steps against the Chinese Communist Party in recent months that would at times have struck fear into the hearts of larger nations such as the United States, Japan, Germany, and France.

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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