The Chinese "wolf fighters" offensive
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Lu Shaye, Chinese Ambassador to France.
(Illustrative photo) AFP - MARTIN BUREAU
By: Cyril Payen
5 mins
The Chinese regime's provocations against other powers reflect the new uninhibited line, now assumed in broad daylight by President Xi Jinping who has launched his "wolf fighters", a young guard of his diplomacy to attack the world.
Should we see the beginnings of a new globalization dominated by Beijing?
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The Chinese Ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, has hard skin, sharp fangs and very little diplomatic language.
Shortly after his arrival in Paris in 2019, he quickly held, among his distinguished counterparts, the record for official summons to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which, although only a few hundred meters away from its embassy had nothing to do with courtesy visits.
Because the outrageous outings of Lu Shaye - who accused France of letting "
the elderly die in the Ephad
" at the height of the pandemic or called "
small strike
A French researcher who defended Taiwan - irritates at the highest level of the state.
Revealing a new strategy of conquering China based on an uninhibited and aggressive attitude which also extends throughout the world.
Lu Shaye, leader of the “wolf fighters”
The term "fighting wolf" is inspired by a film, which made all the rage in China, featuring a sort of Chinese "Rambo" which systematically triumphs over wicked Westerners.
Beyond the anecdote, the warlike diplomats launched to the ideological assault of the world are part of a generation embodied by Lu Shaye, who from Paris to Stockholm, via London and Canberra, multiplies anti-Western provocations, a doctrine inspired by President Xi Jinping himself, champion of a nationalist renaissance.
In short: faced with a breathless West, the time has come for Chinese-style globalization.
Is the Western bloc unresponsive, is there a front against Beijing?
The European sanctions related to the Uyghur question against Chinese officials decreed this week which echo Canadian and American coercive measures unprecedented since the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, certainly testify to a desire to do battle, to engage in diplomatic combat with Beijing, suggesting a more or less homogeneous Western front.
But these maneuvers remain very symbolic because there is no question for anyone, from Washington to Brussels, of isolating the second economy on the planet.
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