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IL11: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise ft. Susan Shirk

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Overreach

Some Chinese officials are really good at trying to figure out what the leader wants. So you get policies enacted that maybe he didn't even want to enact in the first place but it's a result of this desperation to show this over compliance or bandwagoning. One example is so-called wolf warrior diplomacy which is Chinese diplomats going right up to the foreign minister, state counselor and national security advisor themselves who gush praise for Xi Jinping. Another one is when China was giving masks and other medical supplies to other countries to help them in the early stages of the pandemic - now we have zero COVID.

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