Diplomatic Outbursts Mar Xi's Plan to Raise China on the World Stage
- China’s envoys guided by domestic rather than world politics
- Rise in assertive diplomacy seen as product of ideology drive
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China’s diplomats aren’t being very diplomatic.
In the past few months, its envoy to Canada publicly accused his hosts of “white supremacy,” its ambassador in Sweden labeled the Swedish police “inhumane” and blasted the country’s “so-called freedom of expression,” and its chief emissary in South Africa said President Donald Trump’s policies were making the U.S. “the enemy of the whole world.”