TOKYO — Lithuania’s prime minister has excessive expectations that her nation’s budding ties with Taiwan will result in vital industrial synergies, together with in fields equivalent to semiconductors and lasers.
Whereas most international locations keep away from overt diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favor of ties with China, which claims the self-ruled democratic island as its territory, Lithuania has made a degree of reaching out to Taipei, the place it opened a commerce consultant workplace earlier this yr. Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte instructed Nikkei Asia in an interview on Friday in Tokyo that this was a part of a push by her authorities to strengthen relations within the Indo-Pacific area.