TAIPEI (AFP) - A Czech delegation arrived in Taipei Sunday (Aug 30) in the second high-profile foreign visit to Taiwan this month - a setback for China's campaign to keep the democratic island isolated from the rest of the world.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TAIPEI - A Czech delegation arrived in Taipei Sunday in the second high-profile foreign visit to Taiwan this month - a setback for China's campaign to keep the democratic island isolated from the rest of the world.
Beijing views Taiwan as its own territory - vowing to one day seize it by force if necessary - and bristles at any moves by foreign governments to recognise or conduct official exchanges with Taipei."His insistence to go to Taiwan to carry out this so-called 'visit' deliberately wrecks the political foundation of China-Czech relations," foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Thursday.
"Such openly defiant initiatives also signal that, even in Europe, the zeitgeist is changing from 'Beijing consensus' to 'resisting Beijing'," he told AFP. "But such public demonstrations of support and engagement with Taiwan are not going to become typical overnight," he told AFP.For decades it was a harsh autocracy like China. But since the late 1990s it has evolved into one of Asia's most progressive democracies.Tsai has marketed the island as a progressive democratic ally to other nations hoping to push back against Beijing's authoritarianism.
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