[3] Following the death of Jaroslav Kubera, Vystrčil was nominated for the position of President of the Senate in 2020 election.

[6] Vystrčil announced on 9 June 2020 that he would make a trip with a business delegation to Taiwan, as his predecessor Kubera had planned before his death.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reacted by issuing a sharply worded statement, calling the visit a "provocation".

In his address, Vystrčil declared "I am a Taiwanese" in Mandarin, alluding to the phrase Ich bin ein Berliner that John F. Kennedy had used in one of his most famous speeches.

[10] The move led Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to state that Vystrčil's trip had "crossed a red line".