Welcome to Wolf-Warrior Diplomacy

For those who hadn’t noticed the increasingly assertive style with which China has pressed its interests around the world, this week offered a blunt introduction to wolf-warrior diplomacy.

It began with a tweet from Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, one of Beijing’s more prominent wolf warrior diplomats. In his post, Zhao commented on allegations that Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan were involved in a number of unlawful killings. He included a picture depicting an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of an Afghan child.