Taiwan seeks deeper relations with Baltic states despite Chinese opposition

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Taiwan's foreign minister, Joseph Wu, embarks on a diplomatic tour to the Baltic region this week, delivering speeches at research groups in Latvia and Estonia and exchanging views on ways to deepen bilateral ties with lawmakers in all three countries.

Some analysts say the trip is a concrete way to broaden the relationship that Taiwan has established with Baltic countries since the opening of the "Taiwanese Representative Office" in Lithuania two years ago. "What we are seeing is the two sides building on what they have established," Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, an expert on Taiwan-EU relations at the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan, told VOA in a phone interview.