In recent years, the Chinese regime’s diplomats have been tagged with the moniker “wolf warriors” over their bellicose rhetoric directed at their foreign counterparts.
While this label is relatively new, the controversial behaviors in question can trace its roots going back decades, according to an author on the topic.
“That kind of combative fighting spirit has been in the DNA of the foreign ministry right from the start,” said Peter Martin, during an Oct. 20 online event hosted by the University of Montana to discuss his book, “China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy.”
Martin, who is currently Bloomberg’s defense policy and intelligence reporter, said his book is based on interviews and over 100 memoirs of former Chinese diplomats.
The fighting ethos, according to Martin, started with the communist
regime’s first diplomat, Zhou Enlai, who decided that Chinese diplomats
should “think and act like the People’s Liberation Army in civilian
clothing.”...........To Read More.....
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