“From our side, I don’t feel like we created these circumstances,” Lithuania’s top diplomat said. “Lithuania’s China policy is neither old nor new, we continue to expand our relations in the Indo-Pacific region and we see it as an alternative of developing relations with the countries that respect democracy, respect the rule of law, respect business conduct, and are not delivering different types of threats that can be implemented through dependencies.”

Ok but, that doesn’t sound like China should fit that metric then.