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Lithuania should call a NATO meeting over China’s threat

By Tom Rogan

Published August 10, 2021 8:16pm ET

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Lithuania should call a NATO meeting over China’s threat — Vice President Joe Biden gives a joint statement with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite and Latvia's President Andris Berzins in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 19. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) | Mindaugas Kulbis

Article Three of NATO’s charter notes that members “will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.”

China explicitly threatened Lithuania’s political independence on Tuesday. As a consequence, Lithuania should call a meeting of its fellow NATO members.

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