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    What a poor question. Nobody but Lithuania's government can answer it definitively, therefore the only possible answers it can get will be opinionated guesses.
    – Ian Kemp
    Commented Aug 13, 2021 at 8:39
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    @IanKemp If Politics.SE would be only about definitive answers, half of the current opened questions would get closed. Btw - there are no definitive answers in programming, so how would can we expect to have them in politics?
    – Alexei
    Commented Aug 13, 2021 at 9:00
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    In addition to what @user26742873 mentioned, China is, in some sense of the word, 'cut off' from the open ocean by chains of islands stretching from South Korea through Japan, Taiwan, the Phillipines and Indonesia/Malasia/Singapore; assuming them all to be sovereign states with a common defence agreement, the straits between the islands could be closed off very effectively which China definitely wants to avoid.
    – Jan
    Commented Aug 13, 2021 at 13:08
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    It's probably worth noting that most actions that China might take a country it can't take against Lithuania because China's trade relations are with the EU not with Lithuania directly.
    – Jack Aidley
    Commented Aug 13, 2021 at 15:05
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    @JackAidley totally, that's what I meant by not obviously all that exposed to China's displeasure
    – Italian Philosophers 4 Monica
    Commented Aug 14, 2021 at 0:16