The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is under siege for its expanding global ambitions. In this year’s report to the Communist Party’s two sessions, the terminology used in relation to diplomacy is also changing. This, according to analysts, shows an increasingly obvious decline in the CCP’s diplomacy.
The Communist Party’s “Two Sessions” report has changed the language on diplomacy
At 3 p.m. on March 4, the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held a meeting in Beijing‘s Great Hall, where CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang read out a report on its work. Compared to the reports of the past few years, the report has less content on diplomacy.
In the diplomatic review, this year’s report mentions the comprehensive use of “cloud diplomacy” and offline exchanges to carry out foreign exchanges, and in response to the U.S. “bills related to Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, anti-China bills related to the Epidemic and anti-China fallacies of individual politicians, through issuing statements, organizing talks and interviews with members, etc. The report also refuted the anti-China bills and the anti-China fallacies of individual politicians.
In addition, the report rarely mentions the Communist Party’s “One Belt, One Road”.
On the morning of March 5, Li Keqiang delivered his government work report at the National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China. The report’s summary of last year’s diplomatic work is increasingly conservative compared to previous years.
The report for 2019 says that “major diplomacy with Chinese Communist Party characteristics has made ‘new achievements’.” In the 2020 report, the word “new achievements” disappeared and was replaced by the phrase “great diplomacy with Chinese Communist Party characteristics has been ‘fruitful'”. In this year’s “Two Sessions”, even the word “achievements” disappeared, replaced by “last year’s ‘fruitful’ major diplomacy with Chinese Communist Party characteristics “.
In comparison with previous years, several other expressions of the CCP’s diplomatic work have changed.
For example, the 2019 and 2020 reports both mention “fruitful economic diplomacy and humanistic exchanges”; however, this year’s report has no trace of this phrase.
The 2019 report also mentions that the CPC “promotes the building of a new type of international relations,” but this phrase is missing from both the 2020 and 2021 reports.
The 2020 report says the CPC “actively participates in the construction and reform of the global governance system,” but this year, it says “adheres to multilateralism.
According to current affairs commentator Li Linyi, the wording of the government report has changed for three consecutive years, from “new achievements” to “fruitful” to “fruitful”. In the official context of the Chinese Communist Party, “effective” actually means “average,” because “effective” does not necessarily mean “fruitful. The term “effective” in the official context of the CCP means “average” because “effective” does not necessarily mean “fruitful. Although the CCP has been telling lies, it has disguised itself as an acknowledgement of the growing diplomatic decline in the face of the epidemic and its isolation by the West.
Bad News for Diplomacy During the CCP’s 2021 “Two Sessions
As the “two sessions” of the Communist Party of China (CPC) are just beginning to take place, there is a lot of bad news on the diplomatic front.
On March 4, The Heritage Foundation released its 2021 Index of Economic Freedom report, in which Hong Kong was removed from the list for the first Time, along with Macau, as a part of mainland China.
Hong Kong has been ranked first for 25 consecutive years, after dropping to second place in the past 26 years. The report concluded that Hong Kong’s economic policies are clearly controlled by Beijing and that Hong Kong has lost its political freedom and autonomy over the past two years to the extent that it is no different from other Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Beijing.
Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation is one of America’s public policy think tanks and is considered to have influence in the U.S. business community.
On March 3, the U.S. White House National Security Council released the Biden administration’s first Midterm Guidelines for a National Security Strategy.
The report states that the U.S. will support Taiwan, a leading democracy and a key economic and security partner, in line with longstanding U.S. commitments. The United States will also defend democracy, human rights and human dignity, including Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. On these issues, the United States will work to build consensus with like-minded countries.
The highlight of this report is that the U.S. has ignored the CCP’s previous “red line” warnings and has again stated its support for Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Tibet.
On February 22, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Washington not to interfere in Taiwan’s affairs. On the same day, CCP Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said that issues related to Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Tibet are Beijing’s “red lines” that the United States must not touch.
Yang Jiechi, the CCP’s top foreign affairs official, also warned the U.S. on February 2 that Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang are “issues related to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” that must not be touched.
On March 3, Secretary of State John Blinken delivered his first major foreign policy speech in office, listing eight priorities for U.S. diplomacy, one of which is to address the challenges of the Chinese Communist Party.
He stressed that when human rights are violated in Xinjiang and democracy is trampled on in Hong Kong, the United States should also stand up for its values, and that “if we don’t, China [the Chinese Communist Party] will get away with even more.
China’s “Vaccine Diplomacy” Curbed
So far, the U.S. and its allies have also begun to curb the Chinese Communist Party on “vaccine diplomacy.
At a CPPCC press conference on March 3, CPPCC spokesman Guo Weimin boasted that by the end of February, the CCP had provided vaccine aid to 69 countries and two international organizations, and exported vaccines to 28 countries.
On the same day, the Financial Times reported, citing sources familiar with the matter, that the Biden Administration is making the “Quadripartite Security Dialogue” a central driver of its Asia policy, and that using vaccine distribution to counter the CCP is one of a series of initiatives the U.S., Japan, India and Australia hope to announce soon.
The report said the Biden administration has also started talks with members of the Quadripartite Security Dialogue to collaborate on a plan to provide vaccines to Asian countries, as well as to discuss issues such as climate change and cybersecurity, and will cooperate to counter the influence of the Chinese Communist Party.
This comes on the heels of an earlier “vaccine diplomacy war” between India and China.
A Feb. 26 Bloomberg News article reported that India is actively seeking to defeat the Chinese Communist Party in the vaccine export war.
According to the report, New Delhi has successfully shipped nearly 6.8 million doses of free vaccines worldwide. The article said India has the capacity to produce vaccines to help it counter the Chinese Communist Party and hopes to gain greater political influence in all developing countries.
The article says that the Chinese Communist Party is still exporting vaccines to Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey, and some African and South American countries, but that a major reversal of this trend has begun, and that while India is actively fighting back, research and development in Europe and the United States and other countries will cooperate to bring down the inferior products produced by the Chinese Communist Party.
Bangladesh, which has received significant investment from the Chinese Communist Party in recent years, was to be given 110,000 doses of vaccine by the Chinese Communist Party, but after Bangladesh refused to pay for the vaccine’s research and development, the Chinese Communist Party cancelled the donation. India immediately accepted Bangladesh’s request and gave Bangladesh 2 million doses of vaccine for free.
China is losing its influence in conflicts with all countries
The Chinese Communist Party is currently in conflict with a growing number of countries.
In recent years, diplomatic relations between Australia and China have deteriorated sharply, with the Australian Parliament passing two anti-foreign interference bills in 2018 aimed at curbing the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, and first publicly banning huawei from participating in the construction of Australia’s 5G network in the same year; in April 2019, the Australian government called on the international community to launch an independent investigation into the source of the outbreak.
In addition to offending the CCP by advocating an investigation into the origin of the epidemic, Australia has also criticized the CCP over issues such as Hong Kong, the South China Sea and Xinjiang. The Chinese government retaliated by threatening economic sanctions and launching a trade drive to curb imports of Australian beef, wine and barley. But Australia said it would not give in.
Friction between China and Japan in the waters around the Diaoyu Islands is frequent. News of clashes and confrontations along the Sino-Indian border also continue. Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party has disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries over sovereignty in the South China Sea.
In addition, the CCP also has disputes with European countries over human rights issues, with Latin American countries over illegal fishing, and with African countries over development debt.
On March 3, Foreign Policy published an article titled “China (CCP) Is Losing Influence – and That Makes It Dangerous,” saying that the CCP finds itself in conflict with an increasing number of countries and is losing influence over the world. It is losing its influence on the world.
The article cites that the CCP’s promises are no longer taken seriously and its propaganda is not listened to; many Belt and Road projects have been suspended; there is essentially no support for its “nine-dash line” claim in the South China Sea; after Beijing took control of Hong Kong last year, Western countries are lining up to offer immigration opportunities to Hong Kong professionals; and many countries are lining up to offer immigration opportunities to Hong Kong professionals. Many countries have banned network facilities provided by Huawei and ZTE; India, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan have all modernized and upgraded their militaries because of the potential threat from the Chinese Communist Party.
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