Lithuania

BOSTON (AP) -- Cybersecurity researchers say they have uncovered evidence that Belarus is involved in a hybrid hacking/disinformation campaign against Eastern European NATO members since 2016 that aimed to sow discord in the military alliance, steal confidential information and spy on dissidents.

In the battlefield of geopolitics, Lithuania versus China is hardly a fair fight -- a tiny Baltic nation with fewer than 3 million people against a rising superpower with 1.4 billion. Lithuanias military has no tanks or fighter jets, and its economy is 270 times smaller than Chinas.

Lithuania has enraged China by advising officials to scrap Chinese phones that it says contains censorship software, while cozying up to Taiwan and quitting a Chinese-led regional forum.

Lithuania's Defence Ministry is drafting legislation to ban state institutions from purchasing 'untrustworthy' equipment, after finding a censoring feature in a Chinese smartphone company's flagship phone, Margiris Abukevicius, deputy minister at the Defence Ministry said.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) -- Lithuanian cybersecurity experts are urging the country's government agencies to abandon the use of Chinese-made smartphones after an investigation identified security vulnerabilities and censorship concerns with certain devices.