Xi Jinping advocates the spirit of war wolves in diplomacy, claiming that he “wants to solve the problem of being scolded”. As a result, the Chinese Communist Party’s war-wolf diplomacy has officially taken to the international stage and has been escalating. From Politburo member Yang Jiechi and Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Foreign Ministry spokespersons and CCP ambassadors in various countries, all of them have displayed their battle wolf faces and launched battle wolf competitions.
Completing tasks and earning performance is the unique party culture of the CPC. In this wave of battle wolf performances, this party culture is displayed to the fullest. A man named Lu Shayo, from the CCP ambassador to Canada to the ambassador to France, gave full play to battle wolf diplomacy and did his best to sow wildness, rumors, insults and life attacks on Canada and France, so much so that he was repeatedly summoned by the French Foreign Ministry. Among them, he called a French scholar a “punk”, a “hooligan”, a “mad dog” and a “spewer”. The incident shook France.
Not long ago, the Chinese Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, Li Yang, tweeted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was a “lapdog of the United States” and a “son-of-a-bitch. Last year, Chinese Ambassador to Brazil Yang Wanming attacked the Brazilian President for “bringing back the ideological virus from the United States” and was summoned and protested by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.
Recently, Chinese Ambassador to Sweden Gui Congyou attacked a Swedish journalist in Taiwan for “spreading misinformation,” “conspiring with Taiwan independence advocates,” and “moral corruption,” which provoked the anger and protest of almost all opposition parties in Sweden. Almost all opposition parties have demanded that the Swedish government expel the Communist Party’s ambassador from the country. Since the Swedish Foreign Ministry has summoned this CCP ambassador for an unknown number of times, the summons no longer works for him.
Almost at the same time, in Turkey, two leaders of the opposition party criticized the CCP’s Xinjiang policy and were badmouthed by the CCP embassy in Turkey. The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the CCP ambassador to make representations. Although it is difficult to confirm the truth of the water cut, it is clear that the relationship between China and Turkey has been damaged as a result.
On March 18 of this year, senior U.S. and Chinese officials met in Alaska for talks that were originally requested by the Chinese side and reluctantly arranged by the U.S. side. Unexpectedly, Yang Jiechi, a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo, used the opportunity to open his remarks by attacking the U.S., saying that “the U.S. is not qualified to speak to China from above” and “the Chinese don’t eat this kind of stuff”. This high-level war wolf posture, which was shown to the Americans and more to the Chinese, was rated as “acting” and “exaggerated performance” by international public opinion.
Chinese people at home and abroad cannot help but wonder: What has the Chinese Communist Party gotten out of its battle wolf diplomacy and its diplomats’ battle wolf competition, in which one person is more fierce than another and one wave is higher than another?
As mentioned earlier, every battle wolf performance by CCP diplomats has come with a price, even a heavy price: at best, they are summoned by the foreign ministry of the host country, at worst, they face the risk of expulsion, and at worst, they lead to the breakdown of negotiations or serious damage to bilateral relations. If nothing has been gained, why does the war wolf diplomacy continue?
The conceit, arrogance, ignorance and low standards of the top leaders are responsible for this, and they regard the criticism, mostly well-intentioned, from the outside world as “scolding”; they regard the long-standing offensive language of the CCP’s own propaganda mouthpiece as “self-defense”; and as if that were not enough, they ask As if that were not enough, the diplomats were asked to put aside basic diplomatic etiquette and diplomatic rhetoric and resort to direct cursing, real cursing, even going so far as to use personal attacks and obscene language.
Under the pressure of the most powerful people in the Communist Party, diplomats have been struggling to perform in order to be rewarded for their work, to be promoted to higher ranks, and to soar to great heights, or to avoid risks, protect themselves, and retire safely. As a result, the unbelievable war wolf diplomacy and war wolf competition have emerged, stirring up the world to the extent that beacons have risen everywhere, making Communist China suffer from enemies on all sides and be in trouble on all sides.
Some sensible Chinese netizens have commented that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become the “Ministry of Broken Diplomatic Relations”; it has been forbidding Chinese people to criticize, and now it is forbidding foreigners to criticize; it has restricted freedom of speech in China, and now it has gone to foreign countries to restrict freedom of speech. Indeed, among those CCP diplomats who were summoned, they may or may not understand that the simple fact that they were summoned and protested by their host countries is that by attacking, interfering with, and restricting the freedom of expression of the host countries’ dignitaries, scholars, journalists, and citizens, they are in fact interfering with the internal affairs of other countries. Because, in these democratic, normal countries, freedom of expression is the most basic human right and the cornerstone of the host country’s founding.
“Diplomacy is an extension of internal affairs”, a famous saying of Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union. Sure enough, today’s Communist China is unreasonable internally, which inevitably becomes unreasonable externally; authoritarian internally, which inevitably gives rise to authoritarian externally; and repressive internally, which inevitably brings about threats externally. It is the same old saying of the author: there is no Chinese threat, only the Communist threat, and that is the common threat faced by the Chinese people and the people of the world.
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