wolf warrior
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Etymology
Calque from Chinese 戰狼／战狼 (zhànláng), taken from the movie Wolf Warrior 2.
Noun
wolf warrior (plural wolf warriors)
- (neologism) A Chinese diplomat perceived to respond aggressively towards criticism of Communist China.
- wolf-warrior diplomacy
- 2020 May 12, Kathrin Hille, “‘Wolf warrior’ diplomats reveal China’s ambitions”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2020-07-03:
- China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats — named after a set of films in which Chinese special-operations fighters defeat western-led mercenaries — have emerged over the past three years. But the virus has pushed their combative tactics to the centre of Beijing’s foreign policy approach.
- 2022, Axel Berkofsky, Giulia Sciorati, editors, China’s Foreign Policies Today: Who is in Charge of What, Ledizioni, →ISBN:
- Wolf-warrior diplomacy is a manifestation of Xi's effort to shift toward assertive diplomacy away from the low-profile diplomacy engineered by Deng and practised by Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.
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