{"id":51759,"date":"2023-01-10T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/10\/china-wolf-warrior-foreign-affairs-spokesperson-zhao-lijian-moved-new-role"},"modified":"2023-01-10T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T09:29:27","slug":"chinas-wolf-warrior-foreign-affairs-spokesperson-moved-to-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51759","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018wolf warrior\u2019 foreign affairs spokesperson moved to new role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhao Lijian&#8217;s shift to low-profile department seen by some as a sign of Beijing softening its diplomatic strategy<\/p>\n<p>The face of China\u2019s \u201cwolf warrior\u201d diplomacy, Zhao Lijian, has been moved from his role as foreign affairs spokesperson to a low-profile department, in what some analysts say is a demotion.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao is the most well-known of the ministry of foreign affairs\u2019 public-facing spokespeople, making a name for himself during his three years fronting the foreign press, with strong criticism and hostility towards the west and combative defence of China\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/10\/china-wolf-warrior-foreign-affairs-spokesperson-zhao-lijian-moved-new-role\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhao Lijian&#8217;s shift to low-profile department seen by some as a sign of Beijing softening its diplomatic strategyThe face of China\u2019s \u201cwolf warrior\u201d diplomacy, Zhao Lijian, has been moved from his role as foreign affairs spokesperson to a low-profile de&#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":[41,50,319,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51759","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=51759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51760,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51759\/revisions\/51760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}