Czech Republic discusses rapprochement with Taiwan

A discussion on how to deal with Taiwan has also started in the Czech Republic. „We have to defend certain values such as freedom, democracy, and the rule of law,“ says Nathalie Vogel of the European Values Center for Security Policy (EVC), a Prague-based think tank. Vogel is referring to a change in mood in the country. After the Czech Republic initially moved closer to China in the past decade as part of China’s Eastern Europe Initiative, skepticism is now on the rise. Its position on Taiwan is becoming the focus of debate in the country in the wake of the Lithuania affair.