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Czech President Tries to Tamp Down China Anger After Speaker's Taiwan Trip

Reuters

   PRAGUE - President Milos Zeman sought on Sunday to defuse a row with
   China over a visit by the head of the Czech Senate to Taiwan, calling
   the speaker's trip a "boyish provocation".
   Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil grabbed headlines last week when he told
   Taiwan's parliament "I am a Taiwanese" in a speech that echoed the late
   U.S. President John F. Kennedy's defiance of communism in Berlin in
   1963.

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