{"id":56353,"date":"2020-06-02T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T04:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=56353"},"modified":"2020-06-02T13:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T03:46:30","slug":"chinas-wolf-warriors-spring-from-internal-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/chinas-wolf-warriors-spring-from-internal-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018wolf warriors\u2019 spring from internal problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Australia, as in many other countries today, two self-isolating clusters of influencers have emerged that seek to steer dealings with the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n

The two groups rarely intersect except to voice mutual suspicion. Neither deploys sufficient time or effort to understand what\u2019s happening deep within the PRC itself\u2014the principal driver of events and of the surrounding heightened rhetoric.<\/p>\n

They focus instead on how the PRC\u2019s impact washes up on our shores. They play in the shallows.<\/p>\n

One group has belatedly become so anxious about the PRC\u2019s ambitions for Australia that it believes we can and should decouple from China in all spheres. But today\u2019s turmoil cannot simply be rebadged as a new Cold War. The PRC is globally enmeshed, utterly unlike the Soviet Union of old.<\/p>\n

This is a comparatively tiny group.<\/p>\n

The second is the bulging circle comprising the elites whose broad backing the PRC has successfully enlisted\u2014chiefly in state and local governments, and among university administrations and corporate leaders.<\/p>\n

The members of this second group commonly recapitulate the key talking points of the party-state, as if they\u2019ve privately uncovered rare truths:<\/p>\n