'In a series of outbursts this week, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman and Beijing's Global Times propaganda newspaper have unleashed the wolf. First up, the Philippines.' -TomRtweets
Increasingly paranoid about dominating its Asia-Pacific neighbors, China is again unleashing its"wolf warrior" diplomatic strategy. Centered on aggressive rebuttals of what Beijing regards as affronts to its core interests, the wolf warrior strategy has been relatively dormant over the past 18 months. Chinese leader Xi Jinping appeared to recognize that it was doing more harm than good.
Yet, disregarding the fact that the United States and the Philippines are treaty allies, Beijing is now demanding that Manila backtrack. Noting the visit of China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang to the Philippines on Friday, the Global Times declared that recent Philippine actions have been"unacceptable to China."
"Illegally" and"absurdly" are a better choice of words. The map below shows the waters China claims as its own, constituting nearly the entirety of the South China Sea. The lunacy of these claims is perhaps best underlined by the fact that the James Shoal is 70 miles from Malaysia but 1,000 miles from the closest Chinese territory of Hainan Island.
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