China warns Czech senate speaker will pay 'heavy price' for Taiwan visit
Source: CNBC
Czech Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil will pay a heavy price for making an official trip to Taiwan and China will not sit idly by, the Chinese governments top diplomat said on Monday, in a warning brushed off by Taiwans government.
Vystrcil arrived in Taipei on Sunday on a visit to promote business links with Taiwan, saying the Czech Republic would not bow to Beijings objections.
The Chinese government and Chinese people wont take a laissez-faire attitude or sit idly by, and will make him pay a heavy price for his short-sighted behaviour and political opportunism, Chinas Foreign Ministry cited Wang as saying.
Speaking in Taipei, Taiwan Economics Minister Wang Mei-hua brushed off the criticism, though declined direct comment on Chinas attack on Vystrcil.
The Czech Republic and Taiwan are free and democratic countries which put great store on human rights. We have the same values as the Czechs, she told reporters, speaking before a joint business forum.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/31/china-threatens-czech-senate-speaker-vystrcil-over-taiwan-visit.html
It is time to bring Taiwan out of the shadows andit is just wrong that China is bullying countries into not recognizing them.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Sound familiar?
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(5,084 posts)Interesting note, the Japanese surrender documents gave Formosa to the ROC, after the PRC won the civil war the ROC government fled to Formosa which is now Taiwan.