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(Special report from Washington Central News Agency reporter Xu Weiting on the 3rd) Czech Senate President Vitzi paid a large-scale visit to Taiwan and was threatened and intimidated by China. A review article in the Washington Post stated that the Czech Republic has soberly seen China’s true colors, and its approach to China has gradually shifted from an interest-oriented approach to a moral values ​​orientation, which has taught a lesson. to other European countries.

The President of the Czech Senate, Miloš Vystrčil, led a delegation of 89 people to visit Taiwan. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who was visiting Europe at the time, publicly threatened to make Vitzy “pay a high price for myopic behavior and political speculation.” His comments sparked attacks from neighboring countries such as Slovakia, Germany, France, the European Union and the United States. .

Dalibor Roháč, an academic at the American Enterprise Institute (American Enterprise Institute), a Washington think tank who once worked in the office of the President of the Czech Republic, gave a lecture today on “How to deal with China? The Czechs gave a lesson to Europe “. The Washington Post wrote an article sharing the Czech Republic’s past experience with China.

Luo He pointed out that Sino-Czech relations have undergone great changes in recent decades. The current Czech President, Milos Zeman, has visited China 5 times during his tenure. When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, in March 2016, Zeman also received the highest standards in history.

Luo He said that, on the contrary, the first Czech president, Vaclav Havel, who died in 2011, and Ziman’s position in the center were quite different; Havel often showed his friendship with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Chinese officials were so angry.

In the Czech Republic, Luo He pointed out that anti-China activists used to name China’s bad human rights record, but practitioners criticized them for being too naive. The pragmatic Czech believes that an attitude of high ethics should not be an obstacle to the development of China’s investment and bilateral trade. CEFC President Ye Jianming was even named Ziman’s economic adviser.

However, Luo He said that the rich trade opportunities promised by China have never materialized. Although CEFC China has invested in Czech soccer clubs and breweries, the amount invested by Taiwanese companies in Czech manufacturing alone is 14 times that of China.

Luo He said sarcastically: “It seems that the naive side is not the people who follow Havel to deal with China with ethics at the core, but those who believe in China’s promise.”

Luo He said that after Ye Jianming lost power in China in 2018, he subsequently weakened Ziman’s business interest network, and the Czech public was also highly critical of China. He cited relevant polls and noted that Czechs’ preference for China is even lower than Russia’s, and 71% of Czechs blame Beijing’s concealment, which led to the spread of the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic.

Luo He noted that the Czech experience shows that the cost of dealing with China on the basis of ethics and values ​​is much lower than that of other European countries that frequently move between “partners” and “institutional competitors”. “The Czechs are already sober, how long will it take other European countries to wake up?” (Publisher: Xu Chongzhe) 1090904

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