For months now, a sort of “David and Goliath” battle has been playing out between one of Europe’s smallest countries and one of the world’s superpowers. Lithuania and China have been at loggerheads over Taiwan, a territory which China claims as part of its own, and one with which Lithuania has been forming increasingly close ties. Caught in the middle of all this is the European Union. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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