The European Union and the United States should unanimously say no to “coercive diplomacy” and “war-wolf diplomacy,” the EU ambassador to Beijing said on Thursday (Dec. 10). On the same day, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying responded to criticism of China’s “war wolf diplomacy” by saying, “What’s the harm in just being a war wolf? Some netizens ridiculed, “No more pretending?
At a regular press conference held by the CCP Foreign Ministry on Thursday afternoon local time, a media reporter referred to an article criticizing “China’s war wolves” published by Germany’s Daily Mirror on Tuesday and asked “What is the spokesperson’s response to this?
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, who presided over the press conference, took the opportunity to defend the ministry’s performance in recent years at length. She claimed that for some time now, China has had conflicts with other countries that were not first instigated by the Chinese side. She accused the criticism of war-wolf diplomacy of being another rehash of the “Chinese Communist threat theory” and “a tailor-made discourse trap for China by some people. She described the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s war-wolf performance as a “rebuttal” to the so-called bossy behavior of other countries, and pretentiously asked rhetorically whether China should be the “silent lamb”.
Hua Chunying went on to reveal her “battle wolf” nature again, threatening that in order to safeguard China’s so-called “legitimate rights and interests” and “dignity of interests”, “what’s the harm in being a battle wolf?
On Thursday, the EU ambassador to Beijing, Nicolas Chapuis, said during a discussion at an energy forum in Beijing that the EU wanted to reach agreement with the US on its policy toward the Communist Party of China. If China is ready to cooperate, he said, then Europe and the United States can also consider cooperating with China; but when it must oppose, Europe and the United States must unanimously oppose. We need to reach a consensus and say ‘no’ to bullying, intimidation and coercive diplomacy, ‘war wolf’ diplomacy,” Yu Bai said.
Some Chinese netizens believe that Hua’s aforementioned remarks were not simply a response to a German media article, but more likely an opportunity to react to Yu Bai’s statements about opposing the CCP’s coercive diplomacy and war-wolf diplomacy.
Other netizens ridiculed that just a few days ago, Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng was denying that China was engaging in “war-wolf diplomacy” and loudly proclaiming that China is “a nation of manners and peace is precious”, but now Auntie Hua (meaning Hua Chunying) finally couldn’t help herself and simply stopped acting?
According to the news released by the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China, Le Yucheng gave a speech at the “Third Forum on the International Influence of Chinese Think Tanks” on December 5, claiming that “to label us as ‘war wolf diplomacy’ is at least a misunderstanding of the diplomacy of the Communist Party of China”.
He also declared that China “has always been a nation of etiquette and peace,” and “has never taken the initiative to provoke others, nor has it gone to others’ doorsteps, let alone to others’ homes, to stir up trouble. He stressed that “now it is precisely others who come to our doorstep to flaunt their power and interfere in our domestic affairs”.
In response, Deutsche Welle sarcastically noted in a related report that Le Yucheng’s reference to “domestic affairs” was reminiscent of the Chinese Communist Party’s policy of harshly suppressing Hong Kong, Uighurs and dissidents in recent years.
In mid-May of this year, German newspaper “Die Presse” also published an article quoting Thorsten Benner, director of the Institute for Global Public Policy in Berlin, as saying, “(CCP) war-wolf diplomats fight for China’s interests in Rambo style and substitute threats, propaganda and the dissemination of disinformation for diplomacy. A typical figure of war-wolf diplomacy is Zhao Lijian, deputy director general and spokesman of the Information Department of the Chinese Communist Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As we all know, Zhao Lijian’s most famous “war wolf comment” was a post on his personal Twitter account in March this year, blatantly claiming that the U.S. military brought the Chinese Communist virus to Wuhan, which resulted in strong condemnation by the U.S. government while also attracting cynicism from many overseas Chinese netizens.
Responsibility Editor: Shi Fang Source: New Tang Dynasty Please state the author, source and remain intact when reprinting.
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