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‘Heavy Price’: China Threatens Czech Official Over Taiwan Visit

‘Heavy Price’: China Threatens Czech  Official Over Taiwan Visit

BEIJING - Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said Czech senate speaker Milos Vystrcil would "pay a heavy price" for violating the so-called "One China" principle by making an official visit to Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Vystrcil arrived in Taipei on Sunday with a delegation of 90 people including the mayor of Prague on a trip designed to promote business links with Taiwan, which China claims as its own and tries to isolate on the world stage.
He said the Czech Republic would not bow to objections from Beijing, which considers the democratically-ruled island a breakaway province.
China's state media quoted Wang saying the visit was a "provocation" and that Taiwan was an "inseparable part of China".
It is the second high-profile visit by a foreign delegation to the island in a fortnight, after a visit by US Health Secretary Alex Azar. (Aljazeera)