Education Ministry officials won’t visit China

The Chinese government cancelled a planned visit to China by Czech Education Ministry officials over hoisting the Tibetan flag at the ministry building, the news website Aktuálně.cz reported on Friday. Education Minister Ondřej Liška, of the Green Party, had the Tibetan flag put up on his ministry’s building on March 10 to commemorate a Tibetan uprising against China. The Chinese embassy in Prague said that hoisting the flag represented direct support of Tibetan independence, and a gross interference with internal Chinese matters. During the planned visit, Education Ministry officials were going to sign an extended agreement on cooperation between the two countries in university education.