The orientation to the east has cracks.
Ten hours of waiting for Minister Toman at Moscow airport resulted in the cancellation of the Czech delegation's five-day programme. It was supposed to be a series of business meetings between Czech businessmen and their potential counterparts in Kazan, a city comparable in size to Prague. Kazan is the centre of Tatarstan and lies in the Volga region, the European part of Russia. Opinions vary as to what actually happened, but the more likely explanation is that a great power-type signal was sent to a latently interested territory. However, it has also been suggested that the unflattering BIS report on our eastern neighbours, who are said to be stepping up their efforts to influence opinions and sentiments in Czech society, could be to blame. That is a bit more serious. Not perhaps because our information service is capable of direct criticism on a sensitive issue, but because a few paragraphs in an official report could cool down the relations set by the president to the utmost warmth. In particular, it is important who is the distributor of BIS criticism. It does not seem appropriate coming from the President of the Republic, unless perhaps it is a strategic obfuscation of the real situation in the form of an intelligence game. The rift between top Czech statesmen over Tchaiwan also signals an excess of personal interests overriding common ones, which should mirror economic interests hand in hand with morality. The municipal district of Řeporyje has also had its say, following the municipal shootout with Chinese authorities over the formulations around a unified China and the dispute over the statue of the Soviet marshal in Prague 6. The results of the bickering are evident, but if the raised index fingers were not threatened by the nuclear powers, they would be rather comical. Apart from the wait at the Moscow airport, there is the cancellation of the Czech-Chinese forum, the cancellation of lucrative tours of Czech, or rather Prague artists to China and the insulting tweets of the castle's lackey. Minister Petříček is swimming a bit in all this, but it is not easy to read the water, so the sweat on Zamini's forehead is not very surprising and indicates uncertainty. The proverb that one walks so long with a pitcher of water that one's ear is torn off can be transformed into a new variant for these cases. So long and so deeply does one climb up someone's ass until one stumbles upon ... But these formulations and adaptations certainly do not belong in international diplomacy.
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