TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The mayor of a Prague district on Monday (Aug. 31) fired off an angry letter in response to a threat by a Chinese "wolf warrior diplomat" that Czech Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil would "pay a heavy price" for his ongoing visit to Taiwan.
On Sunday, Vystrcil, along with his 89-member delegation, began a five-day tour of Taiwan, making him the highest-level Czech official to ever visit the country. On Monday, China's foreign ministry cited State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) as saying “The Chinese government and Chinese people won’t take a laissez-faire attitude or sit idly by, and will make him (Vystrcil) pay a heavy price for his short-sighted behaviour and political opportunism."
That same day, the Mayor of Prague district Reporyje, Pavel Novotny, on his Facebook page posted a photo of a scathing letter he addressed directly to Wang in response to his threat. In the subject line of the letter, Novotny demands an immediate apology for Wang's threats made against his country.
In the letter, Novotny condemns Wang for having "crossed the lines" of diplomatic norms. He then chastised the foreign ministry for threatening the Czech senate speaker in such a way and behaving like "unmannered rude clowns."
He then demanded that China apologize for the threat "right now" with a formal apology delivered within 24 hours to the Czech foreign minister, who Novotny claimed agrees with him. However, he lamented that the minister dare not express this sentiment publicly due to a pact between the "not very sane" Czech President Milos Zeman and his "co-conspirator" Prime Minister Andrej Babis and communist China.
Novotny said that Wang should be "ashamed" of his threat and he called on China's top diplomat to acknowledge his mistake or face a "heavy price for bullying." Taking a jab at China's notorious dept-trap diplomacy, the Reporyje mayor then said that his side's reaction would be the same even if the communist autocracy invested "14x more than our friends from Taiwan."
He called on Wang to "wake up" and swore that he "will not s*** on us." Novotny closed by demanding a copy via email so that he can keep his "diplomatic f*** up" in his archives and warned him not to "p*** him off."
Dense-Button on September 1st, 2020 at 09:45 UTC »
Chinese Diplomat: Threatens Czech Speaker
Mayor: What the fuck did you say to me you little bitch?
Dustangelms on September 1st, 2020 at 09:38 UTC »
My take from this letter is that he doesn't really want an apology nor believes there's a chance to receive it.
iwanttodrink on September 1st, 2020 at 07:37 UTC »
Addressed to: Comrade Wang, minister of foreign affairs People's Republic China etc..
Calling for immediate apology for threats against Czech Republic.
Esteemed,
this was the last time you opened your mouth about CR! Your behavior have substantially crossed the lines of what is diplomatically acceptable. You dare to threaten senate chairman with pay heavy price, you unmannered rude clowns!
Now listen to me, comrade minister. PRC will apologize asap for the shameless threat. And when I say asap, I mean right now! I want to have it in 24 hours on the table of Czech foreign minister. Btw, he agrees with me, but has to keep his mouth shut because of pact of not very sane mercenary Miloš Zeman with our premier, co-conspirator Babiš. But that doesn't mean you will bully us like this.
Be ashamed and acknowledge that in future even a tone which would implicate threat towards representatives of our sovereign country I will make you pay a heavy price for bullying, and you won't like it. You will not train us from position of strength and I warn you that reaction from our side will be same even if you had invested 14x more than our friends from Taiwan instead of 14x less.
Wake up. You will not shit on us. Do not let this to be repeated.
Send me the copy of the apology on email, so I can put it in archives and forget your pathetic diplomatic fuck up you have just made. Don't piss me off.
With pretending regards.
Pavel Novotný, mayor of Prague-Řeporyje
Edit: Thanks u/AdmiralHacket for the original translation! The news site unfortunately didn't credit him when someone pulled it from Twitter.
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