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.
Signatories:
Fatmir Mediu MP, Albania
Senator Deborah O’Neill, Australia
Senator Claire Chandler, Australia
David Smith MP, Australia
Representative Els Van Hoof, Belgium
Dr. Sanela Klarić MP, Bosnia and Herzegovina
James Bezan MP, Canada
Judy Sgro MP, Canada
Senator Pavel Fischer, Czechia
Representative Hayato Okamura, Czechia
Morten Messerschmidt MP, Denmark
Miriam Lexmann MEP, European Parliament
Erik Marquardt MEP, European Parliament
Senator Olivier Cadic, France
Sujeet Kumar MP, India
Michael Brand MdB, Germany
Artan Behrami MP, Kosovo
Ruslanas Baranovas MP, Lithuania
Žygimantas Pavilionis MP, Lithuania
Tom van der Lee MP, Netherlands
Jan Paternotte MP, Netherlands
Fatmir Bytyqi MP, North Macedonia
Guri Melby MP, Norway
Senator Eduardo Nakayama, Paraguay
Senator Gustavo Leite, Paraguay
Cristian Ghinea MP, Romania
Alexandru Muraru MP, Romania
Dobrica Veselinović MP, Serbia
Hon. Peter Kenilorea Jr MP, Solomon Islands
Ann-Sofie Alm MP, Sweden
Councilor Elisabet Lann, Sweden
Niels Paarup-Petersen MP, Sweden
Fabian Molina MP, Switzerland
Luke Akehurst MP, United Kingdom
Lord Alton of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Lord Bethell of Romford, United Kingdom
Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP, United Kingdom
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, United Kingdom
Chris Law MP, United Kingdom
Blair McDougall MP, United Kingdom
Marie Rimmer MP, United Kingdom
Lord Shinkwin, United Kingdom
Tom Tugendhat MP, United Kingdom
Volodymyr Ariev MP, Ukraine
Mykola Kniazhytskyi MP, Ukraine
Oleksandr Merezhko MP, Ukraine
Yulia Klymenko MP, Ukraine
Oleksii Goncharenko MP, Ukraine
Representative Chen Gau-tzu, Taiwan
Representative Fan Yun, Taiwan
Kevin Vuong, Alumni Council
Tim Loughton, Alumni Council
Catalin Tenita, Alumni Council
John McKay, Alumni Council