Taiwan VP Tells Beijing She Will Not Be Intimidated After Prague Plot Revealed

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Jul 1, 2025 - 10:04 Updated: Jun 30, 2025 - 16:44
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Taiwan VP Tells Beijing She Will Not Be Intimidated After Prague Plot Revealed

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Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim on June 28 vowed not to yield to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), following revelations that the regime planned to physically intimidate her during an official visit to Prague last year.

In a statement on the social media platform X, Hsiao said her visit to the central European nation went smoothly and thanked the Czech authorities for their hospitality and “ensuring my safety.”

“The CCP’s unlawful activities will NOT intimidate me from voicing Taiwan’s interests in the international community,” she said.

Czech Military Intelligence revealed last week that Hsiao was followed and surveilled by CCP diplomats when she visited Prague in March 2024. Agency director Petr Bartovsky told local public radio service iROZHLAS that the CCP’s plan included “a demonstrative kinetic action against a protected person,” though it “did not go beyond the phase of preparation.”

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee criticized the CCP’s plots against Hsiao, calling it “the CCP’s criminality on display for the whole world to see.”

“This isn’t diplomacy, it’s coercion,” the House panel said on X on June 28.

Beijing’s plan also drew condemnation from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), a group of hundreds of lawmakers from over 40 democratic countries who stand together to counter communist China.

“This plan, if successful, would have constituted state terror,” the IPAC said in a statement on X on June 27. “Even as an attempt, this shocking episode represents the crossing of a threshold.”

“A state which is willing to plan such an overt act of politically motivated violence in a foreign country is not a state that can be said to respect international diplomatic norms.”

Thanking the IPAC for their solidarity against violence and coercion, Hsiao stated, “Taiwan will not be isolated by intimidation.”

Beijing denied any wrongdoing when asked about the Prague intelligence agency’s comments at a regular briefing on June 27, claiming that its diplomats “always observe the laws and regulations of host countries.”

Instead, Guo Jiakun, the ministry’s spokesperson, reiterated Beijing’s dissatisfaction over Prague hosting the visiting Hsiao last year, whom he labeled as “a Taiwan independence diehard.”

The CCP considers the self-governed Taiwan as a renegade province, though it has never ruled the island nation. The two governments hold competing claims as the legitimate government of China.

To pressure Taiwan and the world into accepting its competing sovereignty claims, the regime has sought to isolate Taiwan on the international stage and stop foreign officials and parliament members from engaging with their Taiwanese counterparts. Last year, it was revealed that the CCP pressured lawmakers from at least five countries not to travel to Taipei to attend a summit focusing on the CCP’s aggressive and destabilizing actions.
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s office has urged foreign countries to stand up to the CCP’s transnational repression, condemning the regime’s “unlawful,” “uncivilized,” and “dangerous” actions against Vice President Hsiao in the Czech Republic.

“We urge the international community to stand against transnational repression & surveillance by authoritarian regimes—threats that infringe upon other nations’ sovereignty,” the office said on June 27.

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