PRAGUE — Twenty-seven of the EU’s 28 countries are boycotting China’s commemoration of the end of World War II.
Meet the exception: the Czech Republic’s Miloš Zeman.
The Czech president will be in Beijing later this week, thumbing his nose — not for the first time — at the attempts of the rest of the European Union to forge a common approach to foreign affairs.
The Europeans object to the military parade at the commemoration on Thursday, seeing it as a provocation toward Japan at a time of tensions over territorial disputes in the East China Sea. The sight of thousands of …read more
Source: European Voice
