How Beijing is mounting an aggressive campaign to defend its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state, wrote in his seminal study Diplomacy that"Beijing's diplomacy was so subtle and indirect that it largely went over our heads in Washington".
So they launch salvos of persistent tweets and posts from their embassies around the world. And they hold little back, deploying sarcasm and aggression in equal measure. In a recent editorial, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper, Global Times, declared the people were"no longer satisfied with a flaccid diplomatic tone" and said the West feels challenged by China's new"Wolf Warrior" diplomacy.
Take the Chinese embassy in India which described calls for China to pay compensation for spreading the virus as"ridiculous and eyeball-catching nonsense". He tweeted:"Some US leaders have stooped so low to lie, misinform, blame, stigmatise. That is very despicable, but we should not lower our standard, race to the bottom. They don't care a lot about morality, integrity but we do. We can also fight back [against] their stupidity."
And it is clearly a policy choice by China's authorities. They could have chosen to focus their information campaign entirely on what has been dubbed their"mask diplomacy", namely the donation and sale of protective medical kit around the world. Ministers accused him of threatening"economic coercion". Officials at the Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade called the ambassador to ask him to explain himself. He responded by publishing an account of the conversation on the embassy website, in which he urged Australia to stop playing"political games".
The Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, published footage of him remonstrating with China's ambassador.
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