Thread by @PandemicTruther

An understanding of China's diplomatic assertiveness or "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy. 😃

China has a virtue. It minds its own business and doesn't meddle in other countries' internal affairs. This allows it to have lightning focus on the problems it wants to solve.

2/ China doesn't invent propaganda lies about other countries to fool its own people or to use as an excuse for aggression. In China's official media, all countries and regions are depicted in a positive light. All countries and people are beautiful and friendly. Africa is

3/ presented as a pleasant place of great opportunities. So China's official media is made out to be the Orwellian Propaganda with smiling faces. Or you can say it's a conscious effort on the part of a well meaning government to promote a harmonious society.

4/ China never dwells on the negative side of other countries. China is the biggest trading partner of 150 countries in the world, ie, China does business pretty much with everyone so cordial relationship is important.

China's utmost "aggressive" foray onto the international

5/ stage as a global leader is its Belt Road Initiative which proposes to lend money and help build the infrastructure for poor countries without strings attached.

Even such a project of apparent utility and goodwill has earned the intense hatred of the West to China's great

6/ incomprehension. China's liberals say, "This is because China's governed by communists. If China were not governed by communists, the world especially the West will love us." The eternal obsession of China's liberals is how to gain the approval of the West.

7/ However Putin is not communist, yet he doesn't seem to have won the approval of the West either.

Given the anti-China hysteria on the world stage, China is doing some soul searching. Is this attitude of doggedly minding one's own business desirable? The bully around the

8/ corner has been bullying to his heart's content in the name of "doing good" without encountering any opposition. The poor the lame the weak in the neighborhood all have been slaughtered, beaten, trampled upon and their homes destroyed yet nobody has said a word.

9/ Not speaking up for the sake of peace hasn't bought China eternal peace. The consequence is that the bully is telling everyone now that China who has been minding her own business is the big bad bully..

All things considered, China's minding her own business is even morally

10/ reprehensible. Silence about the heinous crimes is in itself collusion and encouragement of crimes which may one day visit upon oneself. Malice is always seeking bigger and bigger expression if undeterred.

Hitherto, China has strived to keep a low profile,

11/ to be well-spoken, always considerate, always deferential, careful and circumspect. But the extreme nastiness and aggressiveness of the US/West despite China's retreat is making China think. Maybe retreating, giving way to a bully is not the thing to do. It incites the

12/ bully to press forward its advantages. China didn't retreat during the Korean war and this non-retreat has won China 70 years' peace.

So with such consideration, China is becoming assertive. Or rather more principled instead of forever wanting to

13/ cooperate negotiate and not to antagonize.

This is immediately called wolf warrior diplomacy by the West. It's just that West is not used to China's assertive style yet. China's spokesman Geng Shuang at the UN was calling out the seven major crimes of the US to Humanity.

14/US is a crime ridden regime. But so far there hasn't been an international voice of substance calling out US crimes. China rising has its role to play. It's filling a deficit, ie, pointing out that the bully is bullying. So far the Propaganda has the bully doing good...

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