After the Chinese side announced that Czech Chamber of Deputies speaker Tomio Okamura will visit China from July 20 to 24, some media on the island of Taiwan have played up the news and claimed the trip could affect the island's ties with Czech Republic. Chinese experts dismissed this media narrative as an attempt to exploit the Taiwan question to influence Prague's China policy, saying it also reflects the waning effectiveness of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities' efforts to rely on external forces to boost its presence and create troubles for interactions between China and other countries.