As tensions between the US and China escalate, interesting information continues to leak out from behind the scenes. The US-based Foreign Affairs magazine, considered the world’s most respected foreign policy publication, published an extensive analysis article on China’s changing foreign policy concept. The publication drew attention to the fact that since 2019, Beijing’s diplomats have been using a discourse that belittles, mocks, uses sarcastic words and even threatens their opponents. The publication also claimed that those who adopt this new approach, which is the exact opposite of their cautious diplomatic discourse before 2019, are known in China as “wolf warriors.”
USA IS THE TARGET
The Diplomat, a publication covering foreign policy developments in the Asia-Pacific region, also underlined that wolf warriors are tasked with developing conspiracy theories about China, especially the United States. It is stated that the targets of the Chinese diplomats’ conspiracies and accusations include the United States, as well as Taiwan, East Turkestan officials, Hong Kong, Japan and France.
BECOMING AGGRESSIVE
While it is mentioned that wolf warrior diplomats entered the diplomatic arena for the first time during the Covid-19 period to protect and spread China’s interests and discourse, it is stated that many diplomats adopted this strategy “to rapidly advance in their careers.” Intelligence sources, however, say that Beijing’s expectations from these diplomats are not to conduct diplomacy but to aggressively protect its national interests by promoting China’s propaganda.
DIPLOMATS IN THE FIELD
According to writers in global diplomacy publications, China’s foreign policy has become based on “blaming others”, “using harsh expressions”, “creating scapegoats” and thus creating a nationalist reaction. The warrior wolves also have the task of attributing China’s domestic political problems to “foreign hostile forces, primarily the United States.” Experts also say, They also state that when Beijing’s foreign policy problems begin to be solved, it draws the warrior wolves and brings “moderate, solution-oriented and reliable” diplomats onto the scene.
POLITICIANS ARE AFRAID
The Economist also mentioned the wolf warriors and shared the information that due to China’s increasingly harsh reactions in its own foreign policy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had to comply with this strategy. The publication also stated that Chinese diplomats have started to attack on social media and “in some cases, they have scuffled with diplomats from other countries and created physical tensions”; “Many politicians and business people in the West are afraid that they are being targeted because of these attitudes,” he said.
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