Xi’s call for a ‘lovable’ China may not tame the wolf warriors
Sulmaan Khan is quoted from his Foreign Policy article examining how China appears to have abandoned its “grand strategy”, via an article in The Washington Post.
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President Biden is in office now, and despite his softer style, he looks set to push China on issues related to the coronavirus and more. Calls for countries to boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics show no sign of dissipating any time soon, while China’s vaccine diplomacy efforts have been complicated by reports of low efficacy and new waves.
Writing for Foreign Policy, Tufts University’s Sulmaan Wasif Khan argued that the wolf warriors had disrupted China’s “grand strategy” and posed a real domestic risk. “The real danger is that once toxin has spread through the system, there is no knowing where it will end,” Khan wrote.