Taiwan builds on recognition with Czech as delegation summon Chinese envoy over row

The Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil walking into the meeting room of Taiwan and Czech Economic, Trade and Investment Forum in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday (Aug 31, 2020). Vystrcil arrived in Taiwan on Sunday accompanied by Prague Mayor Zdenek Hrib and more than 80 representatives from government, business and academia arrived to Taiwan on a six-day visit. - AP

TAIPEI, Aug 30 (AFP): A Czech delegation arrived in Taipei on Sunday in the second high-profile foreign visit to Taiwan this month -- a setback for China's campaign to keep the island isolated from the rest of the world.

The 90-member group, led by senate speaker Milos Vystrcil, landed two weeks after US health chief Alex Azar marshalled the highest-level mission to Taiwan by Washington since it switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing in 1979.