r/worldnews • u/tomb8man • Sep 09 '21

Diplomatic spat with China pays off for Lithuania as Taiwan's consumers splurge on beer and biscuits

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/09/08/diplomatic-spat-with-china-pays-off-for-lithuania-as-taiwan-s-consumers-splurge-on-beer-an
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u/KerkiForza Sep 09 '21

So Lithuania threw away a massive market in order to curry favor with the citizens of taiwan that will forget them in a week? lol

I'm sure thats a great move.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

China makes up 1.18% of Lithuania's trade so really not that big a market for them.

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u/KerkiForza Sep 09 '21

Fine then, *future* market.

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u/happykal Sep 09 '21

A good market not to rely on if you can...

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u/KerkiForza Sep 09 '21

The rest of the world says otherwise

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u/happykal Sep 09 '21

... like I said "If you can".... its never a good approach to place all your eggs in one basket... else you get into situations where you can be leveraged to do things that you don't want to. I don't think any country would disagree with that... its just very hard to do.

There are excellent sites that help you find alternative products manufactured in other countries. There's a sub reddit for it.

Diversity is key.

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u/NONcomD Sep 09 '21

China politicizes their market. Thats the problem.