The European Union (EU) ought to cancel an upcoming meeting with China, intended to tame bilateral tensions, unless the latter states a clear stand on the Russia-Ukraine war, a senior Lithuanian official said on March 16. “It is the time to show China that we mean business—that they cannot expect to occupy this ambiguous role, on one hand supporting Russia, on one hand using trading opportunities with the West—European Union, and expect no consequences,” Lithuanian vice foreign minister Mantas Adomenas told Reuters. Three weeks ago, the group of 27 nations in Europe, including Lithuania, said it plans to hold a top-level, likely virtual, meeting with China on April 1 to defuse growing tensions between the two sides. The Sino–European relations remained in a freeze over the past year because of Beijing’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Lithuania’s deepened ties to democratic Taiwan. Yet Adomenas said it was “not the time for normalization” in …