{"id":30467,"date":"2021-04-01T20:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/01\/china-butchers-aesop-fable-in-latest-act-of-wolf-warrior-diplomacy"},"modified":"2021-04-01T20:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:38:31","slug":"china-butchers-aesop-fable-in-latest-act-of-wolf-warrior-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30467","title":{"rendered":"China butchers Aesop fable in latest act of wolf-warrior diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese embassy in Ireland Twitter account riffs on fable Wolf and the Lamb, with onlookers asking, \u2018Who is the wolf?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A butchered Aesop\u2019s Fable from the Twitter account of China\u2019s embassy in Ireland has drawn mirth from observers and highlighted the growing sensitivity of Chinese diplomats to international criticism.<\/p>\n<p>As China engages in international disputes ranging from fist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/19\/taiwan-official-in-hospital-after-alleged-violent-attack-by-chinese-diplomats-in-fiji\">fights with Taiwanese officials<\/a> to trade sanctions to threats of conflict, the behaviour of current foreign officials has earned the nickname <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/02\/twitter-has-become-a-new-battleground-for-chinas-wolf-warrior-diplomats\">\u201cwolf warrior diplomacy\u201d<\/a> \u2013 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/china-canada-justin-trudeau-tensions-escalate\">belligerent and aggressive style of communication<\/a> that is most fervently conducted online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/01\/china-butchers-aesop-fable-in-latest-act-of-wolf-warrior-diplomacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese embassy in Ireland Twitter account riffs on fable Wolf and the Lamb, with onlookers asking, \u2018Who is the wolf?\u2019A butchered Aesop\u2019s Fable from the Twitter account of China\u2019s embassy in Ireland has drawn mirth from observers and highlighted the gr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2042,50,350,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-blogging","category-china","category-twitter","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30490,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467\/revisions\/30490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}