On March 18, the first day of the U.S.-China high-level talks, Chinese representative Yang Jiechi (center) changed from the long-sleeved “Tiger Yang” to a “War Wolf” during the talks, causing an international public outcry.
The first U.S.-China high-level talks ended in a cold atmosphere on the 19th, with Chinese representative Yang Jiechi transforming from the formerly mild-mannered “Tiger Yang” to a “war wolf” in the talks, causing international public opinion to erupt. Yu Maochun, former chief China Policy advisor, said that Yang Jiechi was conveying the message from the highest level in Beijing that the Chinese Communist Party officials did not follow the rules and were not polite in the meeting, which is a big failure of Chinese diplomacy.
The first high-level U.S.-China talks concluded in Alaska at noon U.S. Western Time on March 19, with no joint statement and no joint press conference. Secretary of State John Blinken and National Security Adviser John Sullivan told reporters after the meeting that the dialogue with the Chinese Communist Party was “tough and direct.
During the talks, Chinese representative Yang Jiechi staged a show of “war wolf diplomacy”, which caused an international public outcry. On the first day of the talks (18th), Yang Jiechi defied the agreement between the two sides and delivered a super-long war-wolf speech, criticizing the U.S. human rights and democratic system. Originally scheduled for two minutes, Yang Jiechi spoke for nearly 20 minutes in one breath.
White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a briefing to reporters on Air Force One on the 19th that “overblown diplomatic displays are usually aimed at a domestic audience, and that’s the message they want their domestic audience to see.”
Regarding the war-wolf style of Chinese Communist Party officials, Yu Maochun, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo‘s chief China policy planning adviser, told Free Asia that it is not the first time that Chinese officials have been unruly, rude and without the posture of a diplomat, and that this is “a big failure in Chinese Communist Party diplomacy.
Yu said that this shows that the Chinese representatives are not sincere in solving the problem, but only want to use the camera to attack the United States. The Chinese government has been trying to “sow discord” by all means, expecting the Biden administration to fully repudiate the Trump administration’s hard-line policy toward the Chinese Communist Party.
In 1977, Yang Jiechi, a translator for the Foreign Ministry, accompanied former President George H.W. Bush Sr. on a visit to Tibet, and former U.S. Ambassador to China James Lilley recalled in the Los Angeles Times that “everybody liked him.
Bush Sr. also nicknamed Yang Jiechi “Tiger Yang” because he was born in 1950, was a tiger, and had the word “Chi” in his name.
However, more than 40 years later, the long-sleeved “Tiger Yang” has transformed himself into the leader of the wolves in Alaska. The change of Yang Jiechi’s role has drawn the attention of the outside world.
According to Yu Maochun, “Yang Jiechi is a diplomat who used to be more low-key. Now that his tone has turned so tough and impersonal, he must have been given instructions from above, but is just a sounding board.”
Peter Martin, a former Bloomberg correspondent in China, believes that Yang Jiechi’s strong point is that he is “good at conveying what Beijing wants to hear”.
Yu Maochun said that the Chinese Communist Party’s war-wolf diplomacy used to be seen at a lower level, but now it is spoken by the highest-ranking Chinese diplomat, reflecting the strategic strength of the Communist Party. But this will only make the CCP more isolated internationally and will not help at all.
He believes it also reflects Xi Jinping‘s grossly mistaken estimation of the world situation.
On the day the first high-level U.S.-China talks ended, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing where former U.S. North Korean officials and members of both parties showed strong unanimity on the issue of dealing with the Chinese Communist threat.
Republican Rep. Andy Barr (R-Texas) expressed outrage at the unreasonableness of Chinese diplomats at the U.S.-China talks. He said that when the United States talks about the future of the Indo-Pacific, it must make clear to its allies the moral differences between a free and democratic society and a closed communist police state.
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