HONG KONG, Sept 13 (SCMP): The warm reception given to Czech senate president Milos Vystrcil in Taipei just over a week ago has dramatically cooled after he has since denied saying that Taiwan was an independent country, triggering debate among Taiwanese netizens over whether it was worth inviting him, particularly given the island’s donation of 100,000 surgical masks and five mask production lines to his country.
In late August, Vystrcil led an 89-member delegation of Czech civic and political leaders to Taipei, the largest-ever Czech delegation to Taiwan since his country became democratic in 1989, ending Communist rule.
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