Good morning.

One of today’s news talks about Lithuanian - Chinese relations. A quote from the article on The Standard (by Reuters) calls Lithuania a “small Baltic republic”.

Cyril Ma @Cyrildoesthings

A @Reuters article published with The Standard called Lithuania a "small Baltic republic" and now I'm questioning what constitutes a small country when it's like the size of Austria thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/…

2:18 PM ∙ Aug 13, 2022

Any Lithuanians care to chip in on how the 2nd half of the Commonwealth became a ‘small republic’ (and isn’t even that small - in fact Jasmine found out it’s the biggest).

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