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(Central News Agency, Shanghai, 30) The president of the Czech Senate, Vedzy, arrived in Taiwan today with an 89-member delegation. The spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the Czech Republic used three “gravestones” to describe China’s strong condemnation and firm opposition to this issue, saying that Vedzy “insisted on visiting Taiwan for personal political reasons.”
▲ Weideqi and Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie replaced their handshake with their arms touching. (Photo / Central News Agency)
On the 29th local time, on the website of the Chinese Embassy in the Czech Republic, on behalf of a spokesperson, in response to Miloš Vystrčil’s visit to Taiwan, reiterated that China has always firmly opposed any form of exchanges officials between countries with diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
The spokesman said that Vedzi ignored China-Czech relations and the mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries, ignored the dominant Czech public opinion, insisted on visiting Taiwan for personal political reasons, seriously interfered in the internal affairs of China, seriously violated the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of China and seriously violated basic international relations. Bilateral political guidelines and commitments. China strongly condemns and strongly opposes this.
The spokesman said that China urged the Czech side to respect the “one China” principle and take concrete actions to safeguard the overall situation of Sino-Czech relations.
In addition, the official report of China’s state central radio and television “International Online” also published today an article by Jiang Li, a researcher at the Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, criticizing the visit of Wei Deqi to Taiwan.
The article said that Vedzy’s visit to Taiwan led by a delegation is one of the most worrying events in the visit of Czech leaders in 2020.
The article believes that Vedzy, as the second most important constitutional leader of the Czech Republic, “decided to visit Taiwan without consulting the President, the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in direct violation of the” One China “policy. which the Czech Republic has adopted and applied since its independence in 1993. It violated China’s national sovereignty and undermined the political foundation of Sino-Czech relations. “
The article also recalls that the relations between China and the Czech Republic are not entirely smooth. After the independence of the Czech Republic in 1993, it has repeatedly had conflicts and differences with China on issues such as Taiwan, Tibet and human rights. After China introduced the “China-CEEC Cooperation” and the “One Belt One Road” initiative, the Czech Republic began to “actively adjust its policy towards China”, focusing on economic diplomacy.
In 2014, Sino-Czech relations rose from a low point; In 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the Czech Republic and the two countries established a strategic partnership. The article said that in the past two years, with the changes in Czech domestic political power and the intensified competition between China and the United States in trade, science and technology and other fields, the relations between China and the Czech Republic have round and round again. The dominant opposition Senate opposed President Miloš Zeman’s economic pragmatism and pro-China stance.
The Czech Republic will hold new Senate elections in October, the House of Representatives elections in the fall of 2021 and the presidential elections in early 2023. The article said that Wei Deqi played the “card of human rights” and the ” letter from Taiwan “at this time and had its own political intentions.
Compared to the Vedzi point, Taiwan’s investment and job creation in the Czech Republic exceeded that of China. The article said: China is the Czech Republic’s largest trading partner outside the EU, and the Czech Republic is China’s second trading partner in Central and Eastern Europe; the Czech Republic exports to China every year The amount is more than 8 times that of exports to Taiwan; the number of Chinese tourists to the Czech Republic has increased in recent years, reaching 612,000 in 2019 and spending more than 10 billion dollars in the Czech Republic.
During their stay in Taiwan, Wei Deqi and others will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, President of the legislative Yuan You Xikun, President Su Zhenchang, Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie and Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shizhong . They will be presented with the First Class Diplomatic Medal of Honor from the National Assembly in the Legislative Yuan on September 1. Speeches and attendance at the Taiwan-Czech Republic Economic and Trade Investment Forum and other activities.
