Jaroslav Kubera

By way of contrast, Chinese pressure to stop Jaroslav Kubera visiting Taiwan took a more sinister turn when the Senate president keeled over from a heart attack. When his successor, Milos Vystrcil, embarked on the trip anyway in September, Beijing hoped to similarly scare Prague with threats of retaliation.

Romania's Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Friday had a meeting with Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic Radek Vondracek to discuss boosting bilateral parliamentary dialogue, increasing investments and the Czech Republic supporting Romania's accession to the border-free Schengen area.

Brnabic will visit the Czech Republic together with Minister of Finance Sinisa Mali at the invitation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis.

Brnabic will meet with President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman and chairmen of both Houses of Parliament Radek Vondracek and Jaroslav Kubera.