Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China: Why do Western governments and media use Wolf Warrior diplomacy to insult China?

[hualushui]

The "wolf war diplomacy" is actually another version of the "China threat theory" and another "discourse trap". The purpose is to prevent us from fighting back and let us give up fighting. I suspect these people have not yet woken up from their old dreams 100 years ago.

--------------------------------------Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China，Yue Yucheng

 

[shi12jun]

If there are wolves in the world, you must fight the wolves

 

[hualushui]

I agree with him very much.

In the past, when China received criticism from western media and western government, China never used fierce language to refute it. The language used in China was very gentle and China did not satirize Western media.

For decades, the West has become accustomed to Chinese mild language, so that they are not used to hearing sharp words used in China.

 

[hualushui]

For Western media, China's moderate rebuttals are already very intolerable, and China's sharp rebuttals are not allowed.

 

[TaiShang]

The "wolf war diplomacy" is actually another version of the "China threat theory" and another "discourse trap". The purpose is to prevent us from fighting back and let us give up fighting. I suspect these people have not yet woken up from their old dreams 100 years ago.

--------------------------------------Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China，Yue Yucheng

Well captured by the official: It is a discourse trap. Western power elites are very capable in meta-narrative.

But, they are getting weaker as the discourses they (via regime-friendly media and academia) create do not last recently.

US regime academia had created 'sharp power', yet it is dead.

The only way for China is NOT to fight back, but ATTACK.

Capture them unguarded, like China did with Australia, and drive them into irrational anger.

They are not used to be attacked at the discourse level. Hence, any discourse attack will derail their sanity, force them irrationality, weakening their discourse making capacity.

China should NOT tone down, but rub more salt into the wound. Kill the fire with more fire.

 

[Beidou2020]

Well captured by the official: It is a discourse trap. Western power elites are very capable in meta-narrative.

But, they are getting weaker as the discourses they (via regime-friendly media and academia) create do not last recently.

US regime academia had created 'sharp power', yet it is dead.

The only way for China is NOT to fight back, but ATTACK.

Capture them unguarded, like China did with Australia, and drive them into irrational anger.

They are not used to be attacked at the discourse level. Hence, any discourse attack will derail their sanity, force them irrationality, weakening their discourse making capacity.

China should NOT tone down, but rub more salt into the wound. Kill the fire with more fire.

Exactly correct. China should continue to attack. When others attack back, China should double down and triple down.

I’ve been saying that for too long China tries to explain herself and defend. It’s a useless tactic. Always attack.

China being a powerful country should not explain anything to anyone. Have a hawkish diplomatic posture and tell whoever don’t like it to get f’d.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Not the first.

Remember countries saying the US has a "Rambo" diplomacy policy.

 

[ILC]

Vice-Foreign Minister Le Yucheng has dismissed criticism that Chinese diplomats engage in "wolf warrior" diplomacy, saying the term is just another version of the "China threat theory" and a rhetorical trap aimed at preventing China from retaliating when its dignity and interests are harmed.

https://www.chinadailyasia.com/article/151573

Where did you get your quote?

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

When you are surrounded by monsters, you have to become either a wolf, or dinner.

 

[zectech]

Exactly correct. China should continue to attack. When others attack back, China should double down and triple down.

I’ve been saying that for too long China tries to explain herself and defend. It’s a useless tactic. Always attack.

China being a powerful country should not explain anything to anyone. Have a hawkish diplomatic posture and tell whoever don’t like to get f’d.

Best not to antagonize bullies. You have surrogates for that.

This is what the Western bullies do:

The CiA runs the press, hollywood and other forms of media in the West.

And the CiA has training courses on lying, cheating and stealing.

 

[TaiShang]

Exactly correct. China should continue to attack. When others attack back, China should double down and triple down.

I’ve been saying that for too long China tries to explain herself and defend. It’s a useless tactic. Always attack.

China being a powerful country should not explain anything to anyone. Have a hawkish diplomatic posture and tell whoever don’t like it to get f’d.

I think another method is to employ a variable diplomacy, toning up and down at will.

This will prevent a unified response on the corresponding side.

Also, as Zectech above says, playing with minions like Australia to indirectly confront the big daddy would prevent further great power antagonism.

 

[mazeto]

This applies to all non-Anglo countries being forced to react at all times to their fatuous lectures .
Only China has ( recently) achieved enough heft to shrug-off punishments doled out to upstarts. So by default China is in pole position to be the voice of the rest of the world.
It should play the Anglo tricks to the Anglos -- keep up a steady dose of tweets, comments, mentions in forums like UN on the various glaring (and numerous) defects in their societies like treatment of minorities, reparations for past genocides , displacement of natives , etc etc. For example, criticism of cartoons mocking other religious figures will not only be well received by multitudes it will send the Anglos scrambling to explain themselves. Asking the US to give back ocean bases to the forcibly displaced natives will make their hypocrisy glaring when they target other countries.
Dropping hints Falklands should go to it's natural motherland will make the British think twice before yapping on SCS.
These countries have so much evil to account for, even if China raise one issue daily they won't run out of quotable atrocities for years.
The entire exercise will have a salutary effect not just for China but for the rest of the world.
At the very least it will lead to a moral equivalence : he said_she said , so both are same