Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi threatened Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil with paying the price for his visit to Taiwan, causing outrage in Europe.
Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil’s visit to Taiwan, where Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi threatened to make the Czech Republic pay a heavy price, has not only failed to curb Czech anti-China forces, but has also united Europe in confronting China’s threats. The European Commission’s external affairs department said on Sept. 1 that it did not like the language, and Slovak President Zuzana Caputova also said she could not accept China’s threats.
The European Commission’s spokesman for external affairs, Peter Stano, said at a press conference that “such diplomatic language is not welcome, but the matter is for the Czech Republic to discuss bilaterally with China.
Stano said that the EU and China are in ongoing discussions on various matters, including Taiwan and Hong Kong, and that the EU and member states would have appropriate discussions if they put forward firm plans.
Slovak President Zuzana Caputova also stated that she could not accept the Communist Party’s threat, the first time a European head of state has criticized China’s intimidation of Vitecki’s visit to Taiwan. Zuzana Caputova tweeted that Slovakia supports the Czech Republic; that EU-China relations are based on dialogue and mutual respect, and that threats against EU members and their representatives are in conflict with the partnership between them and are therefore unacceptable.
In the European Parliament, MEPs sent a joint letter asking European Union (EU) foreign policy officials to express support for the Czech Republic in the face of Chinese threats. The letter states that a threat to one EU member is a threat to all EU communities, and that the EU has a global interest in uniting to promote democracy and freedom and to fight against oppressive forces, and calls on the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, to draw a red line between China and supporting the values of this community.
The joint letter emphasizes that in the past the EU has had no diplomatic or political relations with Taiwan based on the one-China principle, stresses the need for the EU to change this, while further strengthening the EU-Taiwan economic and trade hub relationship, and concludes by praising Taiwan as a peaceful and prosperous democracy worthy of EU cooperation and support.
The visit symbolizes the failure of Beijing’s baiting tactics in Central Europe and the failure of China’s tough criticism, which has led to a major reversal of attitudes in the Czech community. Unanimous affirmation, even unanimous support from the EU. China’s attack on the Czech Republic is seen as an attack on the entire European Union, especially since the epidemic, when China’s high-profile domination of European public opinion, as if above all laws, war wolf diplomats have blamed other countries for the origin of the virus, and the EU has become so intolerant of economic threats and bullying attitudes that the threats against the Czech Republic bordered on diplomatic aggression, and finally even the EU locomotive, France and Germany, could not sit idly by while their member states were bullied. The arrogant China has really kicked the iron plate this time.”
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