Stora tråden: Kina kritiserar Sverige

Financial Times: Publisher’s detention puts Sweden at odds with China,
Recall of ambassador underscores tensions between the two countries

...Adding to the fractiousness of relations between the two countries, China’s ambassador to Stockholm, Gui Congyou, threatened Sweden with “bad consequences” when Mr Gui was awarded the Tucholsky prize for writers or publishers facing persecution.

"The reaction goes beyond anything I’ve encountered, and I’ve been working in human rights for 30 years,” said Elisabeth Lofgren, chair of the Writers in Prison committee of Swedish PEN, which awards the Tucholsky prize. “You don’t behave like that as a diplomat. But the problem is it’s China, and China does what it wants.”

Several Swedish politicians have called for ambassador Gui to be sent home. He has made dozens of outbursts against Swedish authorities and journalists over everything from how Swedish police had “brutally abused” tourists evicted from a Stockholm hostel to reporting on China’s concentration camps in Xinjiang.

Government officials in Stockholm said they had had frank discussions with ambassador Gui. The Chinese embassy in Stockholm did not respond to requests for comment...