Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/17
By: Central News Agency
Two members of Germany’s parliament came to Taiwan’s defense
Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin. (By Associated Press)
Thursday, criticizing China for pressuring the East Asian Olympic Committees (EAOC) into revoking a Taiwanese city’s right to host a multi-sport event for young athletes next year.
Klaus-Peter Willsch, chair of the Germany-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Group, said in a statement that the EAOC made the decision under pressure from China to block Taichung from hosting the East Asian Youth Games scheduled for August 2019, in the process violating the terms of the contract that it signed with the city.
Doing so not only deprived the rights of young athletes to take part in the sports event but also went against the Olympic spirit, he said.
Willsch also expressed concerns over China’s coercion of foreign airlines to designate Taiwan as part of China on their websites, saying he was worried China will do more to squeeze Taiwan in the international community.
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