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China facing sanctions through ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy

Published : Sunday, 20 June, 2021 at 12:00 AM  Count : 537

BEIJING, June 19: In order to counter new foreign sanctions, China started with ''Wolf Warrior'' diplomacy to dissuade G7 member states from imposing new sanctions against Beijing under pressure from the US.
It was Chinese President Xi Jinping himself who first introduced China's Wolf Warrior diplomacy. Wolf warrior diplomacy originated from what Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi referred to as Xi's "great diplomatic philosophy," reported Newsweek.
Moreover, it was Xi himself who bolstered the Chinese public's sense of nationalism as part of a strategy to further consolidate his power and increase his prestige.
In an opinion piece in Newsweek, Jianli Yang wrote that over the past two years, Xi Jinping demanded that Chinese diplomats demonstrate a "fighting spirit" and take a tough stance on Sino-US relations and international challenges.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China hastily passed its new law on countering foreign sanctions before the 47th G7 summit convened in England. It was done in response to concerns about forced labour in Xinjiang and the suppression of human rights in Hong Kong. G7 and European Union countries imposed sanctions on certain Chinese companies and individuals, after which Beijing imposed counter-sanctions on the countries in question.
Doing so would demonstrate the shared resolve of the seven most powerful countries in the West to resist totalitarian China. Beijing was wary of this, and thus deemed it necessary to take preventive actions, wrote Jianli.
On the eve of the G7 summit, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) passed the Law on Countering Foreign Sanctions (also known as the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law).
The law is intended to influence countries that are not as strong as the United States and the United Kingdom (such as Germany, Japan and other states that are less willing to stand up against China) to consider the cost of Chinese countermeasures and choose not to go along with US sanctions.
Nearly six months since US President Joe Biden took office, China has clearly demonstrated that Washington must shed the illusion that US-China relations can return to some sort of pre-Donald Trump status quo.
Seeing that the relationship between the US and China isn't getting better, Beijing feels justified in using all available means and tools to counter the West's attempt to contain China, reported Newsweek.
At a CCP Politburo study meeting held on the afternoon of May 31, Chinese President Xi Jinping instructed officials to do a good job of telling the "Chinese story"--to propagate the voice of China, ensure that China has an international voice commensurate with its comprehensive national power and global status, "grasp the right tone," be "modest and humble," pay attention to the "strategy and art of the ''public opinion struggle''" and "elevate the persuasiveness of Chinese discourse."    -ANI




















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