Czech Republic: controversy after the visit of a parliamentary delegation to Taiwan

In Taipei, Taiwan, April 8, 2020 (illustrative image).

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The visit of a Czech parliamentary delegation to Taiwan causes diplomatic turmoil.

China reacted strongly through the voice of its Minister of Foreign Affairs, according to which the President of the Czech Senate would pay "a heavy price" for his trip to the island, which Beijing refuses to consider as an independent territory.

Prague reacted by summoning the Chinese ambassador to the Czech capital during the day.

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The tone quickly rose at the beginning of the week, with the head of Chinese diplomacy who qualified this

as a " 

 " and clearly threatened to " 

 " to the President of the Czech Senate and all those challenging the one-China principle.

In the process, the Chinese ambassador in Prague was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for explanations on this rhetoric qualified as “ 

 ” and “ 

 ” by the Czech authorities.

Rarely has the visit of a delegation of Czech senators attracted so much attention as this week-long trip to Taiwan, scheduled until Friday.

Accompanied also by the mayor of Prague and by representatives of Czech companies, the President of the Senate, Milos Vystrcil, took the risk of annoying the Chinese authorities.

Member of the European Union since 2004, the Czech Republic is part of the cooperation initiated by China with 17 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Very favorable to Beijing, the current President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, had announced huge Chinese investments that the country is still waiting for.

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