Czech EU presidency ‘to forge closer ties’ Renewed focus on the Indo-Pacific not a strategy to contain China, writes Poramet Tangsathaporn When the Czech Republic takes the presidency of the Council of the European Union during the second half of this year, it plans to bind the Indo-Pacific region more closely with the EU. “The Czech Republic had decided to take Indo-Pacific as one of our priorities in foreign policy. This is our presidency priority,” Ambassador Libor Secka, the Special Envoy of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Indo-Pacific, told the Bangkok Post during an intervi…

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