I am an American ex-pat who moved to Lithuania and married a Lithuanian lady. I love this country and I am working on learning the language but it is a challenge. I am a former officer in the USAF, and also served in the USN, I was an Air Traffic Controller for the FAA for 10 years. I then joined the Cable TV business when it was only a start up . Some 20 years later I retired having worked as as the executive Director of Corporate Planning where I oversaw the engineering and building of a vast fiber optic network. My final project prior to retirement was to manage the installation of an AT&T 5- ESS Phone Switch serving several million customers in the Northern region of Florida. So I know what I am talking about when it comes to Huawei's aggressive and insidious actions which get into every detail of your nations commerce and communications like a cancer spreading as is their Virus is now. My concern is that the Lithuanian people and government seem to be taking a casual attitude toward China's encroachment on your strategic port of Klaipeda. I would like to remind you that China never makes a move unless it is in their own preplanned expansionist interest. Please study their China Belt and Silk Road initiative in other nations around the globe. They may seem to be helping improve the port of Klaipeda with investment and facility improvements. They do this because it is their intention to take over this country and thus they will eventually own everything they build or invest in. Each Euro they spend here is an investment in themselves. Now they want to make your port a mail hub. One more step on their expansion which is like their virus. It will spread and harm you. China does not have the interest of the Lithuanian people in mind CHINA ONLY CARES ABOUT CHINA and the expansion of it's Global empire. Lithuania is but a stepping stone for them to get into the EU. Do not let yourselves be used. They have already duped you into letting them introduce their most aggressive Technology sponge set to steal everything you have ever invented. Huawei is the means of doing that. They have cleverly disguised it as a means to support and sponsor your National basketball team. Look at it more culturally than financially. Thy are in your universities in medicine and IT technology. Using Huawei they have garnered public support by acting as if they are promoting you r basketball team. They will soon start to send their people here to infiltrate other industries and they will seek to bring their culture under the guise of promoting cultural diversity. I cannot believe that a nation like Lithuania who stood hand in hand with the Baltics 25 years ago to reject the Soviet Communists is now being invaded and embracing the Chinese Communist Party. Folks, it is all Communism. They do not have your best interest in their plans. This is an invasion. Stop all Chinese ventures in Lithuania if you want to continue to be a free nation. Going forward with China is worse than you would have been had you never rebuffed the Soviets. Please protect yourselves, and this beautiful country. rich in culture and free living people..
