Zhao Lijian - America's nemesis

China has reassigned Zhao Lijian, known to the Western world as the face of Beijing’s assertive “wolf warrior” diplomacy, from his post as Foreign Ministry Spokesperson....

Despite this, the reassignment of Zhao Lijian to an obscure department is not without political meaning. Even if we can critique the discourse of “wolf warrior diplomacy,” impressions matter. Zhao is seen as very nationalist and combative irrespective of how Western media choose to portray him. The fact that China has realigned its diplomatic team recently, including promoting the very conciliatory (and non-combative) Wang Yi, signals that beyond the US, China is seeking to re-engage diplomatically with the West. It suggests a shift away from the highly charged era of 2020-2022, the “Covid era” when tensions with Beijing were very high.

Therefore, although Zhao’s legacy is misrepresented, it cannot be denied that his reassignment is a political move. China is ultimately not happy to be defined by “wolf warrior diplomacy.” With many US allies unhappy that Washington benefits at their expense while asking them to comply with costly sanctions, in particular when it comes to the Ukraine conflict and in its technology war against China, some nations have begun to reengage with Beijing. China ultimately asserts that “cooler heads must prevail” and will seek to restrain the US through diplomacy, not combative behaviour, especially as it reopens again to the world and Washington strives to do all it can to raise tensions. RT

It is a pity that China deems it unsuitable to give Zhao Lijian more space as a Foreign Ministry spokesman to take on the aggressive wolves and hyenas of the American counterparts and their vicious lies and propaganda.  It was Zhao's brand of diplomacy that was able to make the Americans uncomfortable, to be attacked instead of attacking China daily. The Americans were given a taste of its own medicine and could feel the pain that they had never have to contend with. 

Prior to Zhao Lijian, the Americans were having a whale of a time attacking China, playing punks with China, smearing and condemning China freely, a one sided affair. And poor China's only response was to explain and explain and explain, like stupid fools. They have forgotten the saying, attack is the best form of defence. And that was what the Americans were doing to keep the Chinese very busy explaining foolishly for things and crimes they did not do. There is a Chinese saying, 秀才遇上兵，有理说不清.

The Americans are not soldiers but bandits, 土匪 , and it is futile to explain to them. The American's intent and tactic are just to play rough with lies after lies. Why waste time with their lies? The way to deal with the Americans is to have a ‘红脸一个唱白脸’。

Just because of a few apologists in the China camp that still believe in peddling to the American nonsense, trying to talk to the American from the position of weakness, to appease the Americans, not to make the Americans angry as the best way, China is moving away from confronting the Americans with a tit for tat. This would only encourage the Americans to be more aggressive, and the Americans have continue to do so again with no pressure from Zhao Lijian.

The wolf in the wolf warrior diplomacy should be referring to the Americans. The Chinese are the warriors fighting the American wolves. China must bring back Zhao Lijian or continue to be beaten and smeared by the Americans daily. Would China want to continue to be Ah Q again just because of American criticism? 给人打，给人骂， 还要道歉. The Americans are uncomfortable with the heat put up by Zhao Lijian and wishing him to go away. And China is doing the America a favour, a sure sign of weakness, and this is bad. 

The Americans only respect might and power. They don't respect weaknesses. If China wants to be respected by the Americans and the rest of the world, it has to stand up and stare the Americans right in the eyes. Stand up, China. Don't run away just because of a little criticism from the West and the doves in Beijing. What China had achieved in Alaska by Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi had won the hearts of the world but would be wasted if China starts to backtrack and become a meek mouse again.

The opening up of China has given the Americans and their stooges another chance to attack China. Don't expect the evil Americans to be nicer just because you removed Zhao from doing what he did best for China. The Americans are rounding up all their cronies and stooges to mount a concerted attack on China. How much longer would China want to be screwed by the Americans? China's weakness is reflected in the embolden behaviour of the stooges and cronies to impose discriminatory measures against its citizens. South Korea is so stupid to put yellow cards on Chinese visitors without knowing that yellow is the white man's discriminatory colour against Asians like Chinese, Japanese and Koreans.

Bring back Zhao Lijian to keep the heat on the Americans, to keep the Americans uneasy and busy trying to defend what Zhao threw at them. That would keep them away from mischief. China needs to use the Zhao Lijian card to deal with the Americans.