Beijing: After years of China’s growing aggressiveness towards other countries through warnings and insults, President Xi Jinping said that officials should create a lovable and respectable image of the country, which has raised more than a few skeptical eyebrows among China watchers.
In his remarks at a Politburo meeting on Monday as quoted by Xinhua news agency, Xi said: “We must pay attention to grasp the tone, be both open, confident and humble, and strive to create a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China.”
Adam Taylor for Washington Post writes that China’s international relations have frayed significantly over the past years, with issues like the repression of the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang, aggressive rhetoric and action against Taiwan, India and Hong Kong activists and relentless obfuscation over the coronavirus darkening China’s global image.
Much of China’s hyperaggressive diplomacy was led by a team of ‘wolf warriors’, including Foreign…