{"id":34552,"date":"2021-07-29T22:56:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/china-us-ambassador-pick-reflects-debate-on-wolf-warrior-diplomacy"},"modified":"2021-07-29T22:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T13:56:26","slug":"chinas-us-ambassador-pick-shines-light-on-debate-over-wolf-warrior-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34552","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s US ambassador pick shines light on debate over \u2018wolf warrior\u2019 diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Xi Jinping wants his country to appear more lovable, but critics say Beijing\u2019s efforts are too superficial<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/qin-gang-chinas-new-ambassador-to-us-strikes-conciliatory-note\">appointment of a new ambassador<\/a> to the US has shone a light on the ongoing debate among analysts about how Beijing communicates with its biggest competitor, the future of its \u201cwolf warrior\u201d diplomacy and how Xi Jinping\u2019s call to \u201ctell a good China story\u201d might work in practice.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over the \u201cwolf warrior\u201d style \u2013 under which, as the Chinese ambassador to Sweden said on Swedish public radio in 2019, \u201cwe treat our friends with fine wine, but for our enemies we have shotguns\u201d \u2013 comes amid a burst of positive publicity that delighted Beijing\u2019s propaganda officials: the foreign coverage of the herd of 15 wandering Asian elephants in southern China that captured the country\u2019s imagination and led Chinese vloggers to travel hundreds of miles to take selfies with them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/china-us-ambassador-pick-reflects-debate-on-wolf-warrior-diplomacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Xi Jinping wants his country to appear more lovable, but critics say Beijing\u2019s efforts are too superficialChina\u2019s appointment of a new ambassador to the US has shone a light on the ongoing debate among analysts about how Beijing communicates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,238,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-media","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34552","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34552\/revisions\/34553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}