No such thing as 'wolf warrior diplomacy': British analyst

So-called "wolf warrior diplomacy" does not in fact exist; it's merely a one-sided narrative which takes the responses of China's diplomats out of context, an opinion piece published?Wednesday by RT News said.

"Wolf warrior diplomacy" claims Beijing's officials are being aggressive online. For some reason, no such term exists for the incessant attacks on China by Western figures, though,?Tom Fowdy, a British writer and analyst of politics and international relations with a primary focus on East Asia, observed.

The emotional connotations of the word and the way it is politicized in the media make it near impossible for people to get an objective understanding of it. In reality, the term is little more than a set of assumptions and ideas which evolve into a "talking point" that carries their weight, as opposed to an objective set of facts.

The author said the discourse of "wolf warrior diplomacy" intentionally exaggerates the difference between East and West and subsequently frames the East as something aggressive, violent, backwards and dangerous.

There is no such thing as wolf warrior diplomacy, the author believed. He said China's diplomats are in fact behaving reactively and conjunctively towards a new international context. The mainstream media take China's responses and attitudes out of context to what they are facing, and subsequently create a one-sided dictum where only China's behavior is problematic and aggressive. But the reality is very simple: China is just defending itself.?

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