China contacts Prague over Czech president-elect chatting with Taiwan president

BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese language international ministry mentioned on Monday it was in contact with Prague over President-elect Petr Pavel’s scheduled name with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-Wen.

Pavel is because of converse with Tsai on Monday, Pavel’s spokeswoman mentioned, a extremely uncommon transfer given the shortage of formal ties and a diplomatic coup for Taipei that’s prone to anger China.

China claims the self-ruled island of Taiwan as a province and most international locations’ leaders keep away from high-level public interactions with Taiwan and its president, not wishing to impress China, the world’s second largest financial system.

In Beijing’s first response to what might turn out to be a full-blown diplomatic row with Prague, the Chinese language international ministry mentioned Pavel had beforehand mentioned throughout his election marketing campaign that the One-China Precept needs to be revered, in line with a press release despatched to Reuters.

“The Chinese language facet…is at the moment searching for verification with the Czech facet, (we) hope the Czech facet strictly upholds the One-China Precept,” the international ministry mentioned.

(Reporting by Eduardo Baptista, modifying by Ed Osmond)