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China railway operator denies suspending trains to Lithuania, though it’s an option
Globaltimes
Aug 18, 2021 (China)
The China State Railway Group Co (China Railway) on Wednesday denied a Baltic media report that the Chinese railway operator suspended freight trains to Lithuania due to "political tension," saying the freight trains are in normal service, after some media in Taiwan island hyped the fake news amid rocky China-Lithuania relations due to Lithuania's provocation of China on the Taiwan question.
But experts noted that such a suspension of service could be an option for the Chinese side, and urged the Baltic country to act wisely rather than blindly follow the US' containment of China at the cost of its own interests.
The Baltic News Service, the largest news agency operating in the Baltic countries, claimed it obtained a letter from China Railway Containers - China Railway's subsidiary - to Lithuanian customers. The letter read that due to the political tension between Lithuania and China, the freight train originally scheduled to depart from China to Lithuania at the end of this month will be cancelled.
China Railway on Wednesday denied the report in a statement sent to the Global Times. It said that media reports on China Railway Containers suspending freight trains to Lithuania were false, and the China-Europe trains between the two countries are under normal operations.
Source
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231887.shtml
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