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Qin Gang, Veteran ‘Wolf Warrior,’ Is Expected to Be China’s New Ambassador to US
Qin Gang, China’s vice foreign minister and a veteran “wolf warrior” diplomat, is expected to replace China’s longest-serving ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, who released a farewell letter on June 21.
“I have worked in the United States for over eight years, and will leave the position and go back to China soon,” the 68-year-old Cui wrote in his letter, which was published on the embassy’s website.
China’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy is an assertive and often abrasive diplomatic style that the Beijing regime adopted in recent years, and Qin, 55, is well known for the aggressive approach. He’s famous for his sharp retorts to criticism of China while spokesman of China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry from 2005 to 2010, as well as when he served in the position again from 2011 to 2014.
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Dec 18, 2020
Du Bin, a Chinese journalist whose films and books explored the dark side of recent Chinese history, was detained in Beijing yesterday. He was detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” the same offense levied against citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, as well as hosts of other activists, journalists, and citizens whom Chinese authorities have aimed to silence. Last week, a report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists found that China has imprisoned 47 journalists, more than any other country in the world. Bloomberg news assistant Haze Fan’s arrest last week made 48 journalists behind bars. Du’s makes 49. At The New York Times, Amy Qin reported on
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12/17/2020 08:35 AM EST
This week s slate of China news offers a ready, if grim theme: the arrest or detention of people in China. All three cases, it happens, involve journalists of a sort one a researcher, one a former reporter, and one a publisher.
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