Statement on Planned Attack Against Taiwanese Vice President Elect in Prague
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We are dismayed by reports that China planned a demonstrative kinetic attack against Taiwanese Vice-President elect Hsiao Bi-khim.
During a visit to Prague in March 2024, it is alleged that the Military Section of the Chinese Embassy in Prague sought to create conditions for demonstrative kinetic action, according to the Director of Czech Military Intelligence Agency, General Petr Bartovský, and that this action was planned to culminate in the crashing of a Chinese Embassy car into the car carrying the Taiwanese Vice-President elect.
This plan, if successful, would have constituted state terror. Even as an attempt, this shocking episode represents the crossing of a threshold. A state which is willing to plan such an overt act of politically motivated violence in a foreign country is not a state that can be said to respect international diplomatic norms.
We express solidarity with Vice-President Hsiao Bi-khim, and with Taiwanese citizens who may be subject to coercion by the Chinese state while travelling abroad; we recall that Taiwanese citizens and their representatives are the ones who should shape their future; and we call upon our Governments to condemn the People’s Republic of China’s unacceptable actions.
ENDS.
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