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- Mar. 26, 1990: Grapevine:Czech-Mating China
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- NATION, Page 24
- Grapevine
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- <p> CZECH-MATING CHINA. A meeting last month between Czech
- President Vaclav Havel and the Dalai Lama would normally have
- provoked a stinging protest from China, which regards the
- Tibetan leader as an archenemy. But Beijing held its fire when
- it discovered that a Taiwanese trade delegation was in Prague,
- checkbook in hand, poised to exploit the anticipated breach in
- Sino-Czechoslovak relations. Czech diplomats firmly told the
- Chinese that the Dalai Lama's visit would not be canceled and
- Beijing could take it or leave it. Recognizing the big bucks
- Taiwan was ready to dole out to establish themselves in
- Czechoslovakia, Beijing decided to leave it.
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- </article>
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