China rises from its knees and shows its fists to the West
The Chinese ambassador and a representative of Taiwan, which Beijing considers its integral part, fought in Fiji. Experts believe that this is no accident - China is moving to a tough policy.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Taiwan, which has a trade mission in Fiji, hosted a reception in honor of its holiday. Two Chinese diplomats showed up uninvited to the meeting and were outraged by the display of the Taiwanese flag. A fight ensued, and the victims had to see doctors,” the publication reports.
“There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is an integral part of it. Therefore, the flag at the reception was not a flag at all, but a fake,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.
In turn, the New York Times believes that China is “pursing an increasingly aggressive foreign policy,” following the instructions of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who instructed Chinese relevant departments to protect the country’s reputation.
Vasily Kashin, a leading researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on the fight between diplomats.
“The Fiji scandal reflected China's desire to accelerate Taiwan's diplomatic isolation. Perhaps the Chinese intelligence services overdid it. But this is part of the overall picture, China is moving to a tougher policy, using economic coercive measures, and in the future, forceful measures are not excluded,” the political scientist believes.
According to him, there are two factors at work here, one of which is that China has become a superpower and is behaving accordingly.
“Secondly, such behavior is an emotional response to a request from society. There is a widespread belief in China that the country was humiliated throughout the 1980th and 1990th centuries until it rose from its knees under Mao Zedong. Then, for the sake of connections with the West in the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, China was again forced to switch to a passive foreign policy. And now it’s time to put our enemies in their place. Such sentiments in society also affect the diplomatic service,” Kashin concluded.
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