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 ...
The 90-member delegation to Taiwan is being led by Czech senate speaker Milos Vystrcil AFP/Sam YehTAIPEI: A Czech delegation arrived in Taipei on 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.
China has ramped up diplomatic, military and economic pressure on Taiwan since Tsai came to power in 2016 as she views the island as a sovereign nation and not part of"one China". Jonathan Sullivan, director of the University of Nottingham's China Programmes, said Tsai has pushed to build connections with countries it has"informal" relations with.
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. Last year it became the first place in Asia to legalise gay marriage.
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