China Slams Czech Diplomat’s Meeting With Exiled Tibetan
- Encounter raises already tense relations between China and EU
- Lipavsky compares Soviet rule to Chinese presence in Tibet
Penpa Tsering
Photographer: Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo
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China rebuked the Czech Republic after the nation’s top diplomat met with an exiled Tibetan leader, compounding brewing tensions between the European Union and Beijing already strained by the war in Ukraine.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky met with Penpa Tsering, the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, during a trip to Washington on Tuesday. In a statement on Twitter, Lipavsky re-tweeted Tsering’s remark linking the Tibetan and Czech experience of “living under oppression” -- and referenced the eastern European nation’s experience under Soviet domination.