Symbols and signs are of large importance in politics. This is how they read 1 gathering in China, which is surely not meaningless if 2 people with political orientation meet up to it, which is surely not friendly to China. Petr Pavel met privately with the Dalai Lama XVI. It was adequate for China to announce that they were breaking relations with the Czech President. It was informed by the spokesperson of the Ministry of abroad Affairs Lin Jian, who met at a press conference with global media. Previously, China has protested repeatedly against plans to visit India for this intent by the Czech President. According to the Chinese Ombudsman ‘This constitutes a serious violation of the political commitments made by the Czech Government to the Chinese Government and violates China's sovereignty and territorial integrity’. This full incidental was considered a provocation and a reason to break relations with Petr Pavl.
The mediocre explanations of the Czech Republic
The office of the president of the Czech Republic explained not only that the visit was private but besides explained the circumstances of the visit. The Czech President, returning from a working visit to Japan, was to take advantage of the chance to join a delegation that decided to personally want the Dalai Lama a want on his 90th birthday. The symbolism strengthens the fact that the Czech leader visited the Dalai Lama in India for the first time in history. In July, China requested that 1 China be applied and that bilateral relations be maintained in a unchangeable and healthy way.
Separatist
There is no another way to realize this than provocative behaviour, especially since the Czech president is first a Natian general and secondly China considers the Dalai Lama to be a separatist. It has been on emigration since 1959 after the Chinese authorities suppressed the uprising in Tibet. Here, too, the symbols show that the Dalai Lama became the idol of the West on the issue of opposition to “bad” China. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in the groundbreaking 1989, in which China suppressed protests on Place Tiennamen, without allowing a neoliberal course which took Central and east Europe. Already then, in 1990, he met Vaclav Havel, 1 of the main symbols of the transformation of the full region considered to be “post-communist”. It is clear that the Czech President, who has been elected to his position and, by the way, being a Natish general, does not make specified steps accidentally. Especially since this is not the first situation to be a clear provocation, as in 2023 he spoke by telephone to Taiwan's then president Tsai Ing-wen. This besides met Beijing's disapproval. The full situation appears to be an effort to sabotage political relations with China and to indicate that the Czechs under Pavl's leadership are going to stay firmly on the Atlantic course.
Bartłomiej Doborzyński
