Last date for submission of paper: unknown; Contact person: unknown; The three Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia historically have very little experience when it comes to China. Positioned too far away to matter to the Republic of China in the interwar period during their first independence, being on the sidelines of the PRC-USSR relations in the 50s, and rendered unnoticeable by the bitter Sino-Soviet split that followed, the Baltic states re-emerged on the Chinese agenda only in 1991.