VILNIUS — Lithuania will donate 20,000 doses of AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan, its government said on Tuesday, after angering China in March by saying it would open a trade representative office on the island this year.
China considers Taiwan its own territory.
The vaccines were donated after a June 15 request for help from Taipei’s mission in neighboring Latvia, the Lithuanian health ministry said in a submission to the government. They will be transferred by the end of September.
“We’d like to do more, but we do what we can,” Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said during a government meeting that was broadcast in Lithuania.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s s…
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