Beijing’s harsh diplomacy backfires

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    Loveable??!!

    Give me a break!

    Dex

    Exerts below from an article in yesterday’s Australian by Will Glasgow …

    Looking tired and anxious, Beijing’s ambassador (in Canberra) Cheng Jingye has almost entirely retreated from Canberra’s diplomatic social scene. It turns out enemies are everywhere.

    There is a lot to worry about in the paranoid Xi Jinping era, especially for a cosmopolitan United Nations specialist like Cheng. For China’s diplomats, potential enemies are everywhere, inside and outside their walled compounds. Every encounter is a test of loyalty - and all recorded on their embassy’s or consulate’s Hikvision surveillance equipment.

    … with the wolf warrior volume turned up to 11, there is grumbling in Beijing about China’s anti-diplomatic diplomacy. Some voices have even suggested China may have clubbed Australia a bit too hard.

    Even Xi seems to think it is time for some tinkering. At a Politburo study session last week, he told his senior colleagues that China needed to tell its story better and win the struggle to be more loveable”.


 
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