Starting more than a decade ago, Lithuania faced intense economic coercion from both Russia and China, prompting the U.S.-based Hudson Institute in 2021 to describe the country as the canary in the coal mine of the world order. 

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The result has been one of the most robust, resilient economies in the European Union, with gross domestic product growth of 2.9 per cent last year — almost double the rest of the continent, and more than Canada’s 1.7 per cent.