Grateful Taiwan accepts vaccines, praises Czech Republic for democracy

The Czech Republic is donating 30,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Taiwan, the island’s president said on Tuesday, praising the central European country for taking a step that could irritate Beijing.“This manifests again that Taiwan and [the Czech Republic] are not only firm partners on the path of freedom and democracy, but also that a friend in need is a good friend indeed,” Tsai Ing-wen said in a statement announcing the vaccine donation.Beijing sees self-ruled Taiwan as a renegade province…

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