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Text / Wu Kunyu
The president of the Czech Senate, Vitzi, led a delegation to visit Taiwan, which aroused the great discontent of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, threatening him to “pay a high price”, but caused great discontent in the political arena. Czech. The Czech Foreign Minister believed that Wang Yi’s speech“Over the edge”，He also summoned the Chinese ambassador to the Czech Republic and asked for an explanation, so that the already tense diplomatic relations between China and the Czech Republic advanced to the brink of rupture.
▲ The President of the Czech Republic, Vedzy, delivered a speech at the Legislative Yuan. (Photo by reporter Lin Shengkai)
In fact, most of Wang Yi’s comments did not deviate from China’s previous standards for any country when it was close to Taiwan, but added the threatening phrase “pay a high price.” According to a CCTV report, Wang Yi, who was visiting Germany, told reporters that Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory. To challenge the one-China principle on the Taiwan question is to become an enemy of the 1.4 billion Chinese and is an act of international breach of trust. Wang Yi stressed that the Chinese government and the Chinese people will never allow the public provocation of the Czech Senate and the anti-China forces behind him to stand idly by, and must allow him to pay a high price for his myopic behavior and political speculation. (Wang Yi said the text was quoted from UDN News, https://udn.com/news/story/7331/4822756)
▲ Wang Yi paid a visit to France a few days ago (photo / reproduced from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
In theory, in the field of international diplomacy, the phrase “pay a high price” is a very unfriendly and very top-down grammar of caution.Its purpose is to “dissuade” other countries from adopting certain behaviors that they do not like. The meaning is “If you are not OOO, I will XXX …”, the form is like an ultimatum. If the other party responds strongly, increasing the tension to the end,It is not impossible to develop to break diplomatic relations or declare war.
However, in its foreign affairs in recent years, China has increasingly used this kind of “wolf war diplomacy” grammar, but it is accompanied by less painful punishments, making people feel that “the thunder is strong and rain is little. “In 2014, Obama wanted to meet the Dalai Lama at the White House. The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a loud protest. The Xinhua News Agency and other state media threatened that “the United States will pay a very high price for this meeting.”Later, I didn’t see what the price was?During the Meng Wanzhou incident, the Global Times also choked: “If Canada finally extradites Meng Wanzhou to the United States, it will inevitably pay the price for a setback in China-Canada relations. China needs to show the world the consequences of the Canada’s actions. “And he also pointed out:” We have to select the targets for countermeasures, and hitting one will hurt the other. ” Shortly after, China caught two Canadian citizens thinking they were fighting back.
However, the cost and setback of such a diplomatic act with a small electrical storm is very high.First, this will cause strong bullying to lose its “credibility” (credibility), and credibility is the most critical of the three Cs of deterrence strategy.Just like a little bastard who stabbed a dragon and a phoenix came to the booth to pet the table and bench, but you didn’t dare to ignore it ?! As a result, he touched his nose, took an orange, and left alone, causing the viewer to look at the bastard.
Second, on the intimidated side, anger is spontaneous, especially when the words do not come from the media, even the official media can be considered as media.It is the personal speech of a representative of a country such as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which represents an official attitude of rupture.Except for an apology, there is no room for changes. Wang Yi might think that he was only speaking to CCTV domestically, but he did not expect that he was speaking publicly to another sovereign country as Foreign Minister, and he ended up riding a tiger.
The most tragic thing is that since the Chinese Foreign Minister speaks so harshly of “paying a high price”, then the whole world will light cigarettes and lift stools and wait to see how China will make the Czech Republic pay a “high price” . “? Are you breaking off diplomatic relations with the Czech Republic? Cutting economic and trade relations? Canceling aid or loans to the Czech Republic? Erase all Czech manufacturers in China? Deport all Czechs? Or do you follow the example of Attila in the Middle Ages and you bring an army across Eurasia to sweep the Czech Republic? Or will they not hesitate to fund pro-China politicians in the Czech Republic with a huge amount of money to defeat the ruling party? Or even learn from Putin to poison political opponents and kill people outright? If only a few ruthless words remain, but there is no way to make the Czech ruling party cry, it will return to the first point.It ruined his credibility. At the same time, the original friends were removed from the opposition, and the Czech people were also angered, making the original pro-China politicians look more like Chinese elders or younger brothers, and were even more despised by the local population.
This is not a fantasy. In recent years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the leadership of Wang Yi under the Great Xi regime and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council where he had been, this is how the Taiwanese people are irritated.He also sent the pro-China Kuomintang and Ke P to the intensive care unit., China still has not realized what is happening? I keep repeating the same mistakes internationally.
Wang Yi is probably the most decadent, bureaucratic and naive foreign minister since the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party.When Xi Jinping first came to power, there was no foreign minister for a period of time. At the time, it was rumored that Wang Yi, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, should be accepted.But Xi really dislikes Wang YiI think he likes pomp too much, he’s so happy and not at all pragmatic. In the next years,The “wolf war diplomacy” under Wang Yi can only win the applause of nationalism at home, but it continues to offend people internationally.Relations with the United States have been broken and Australia has stalled. The Hong Kong issue has been questioned by the international community. The Wuhan pneumonia campaign was fought back. They went to the European Union and the anti-United States alliance, but they got kicked everywhere. It is useless to lose the diplomatic relations of Taiwan. Now even the Czech Republic can be “lost” by him. Is it really difficult to imagine how he will face Jiang Dong’s father again ?!
To put it bluntly, Wang Yi is a politician who cares too much about the domestic political atmosphere, but ignores the rules of international communication.As the Foreign Minister of a large country, you have made the low-level mistake of intimidating sovereign countries in distant places, which really makes people admire your naivety. If he can still stay in place when he returns, it means that he is not only naive, but he’s determined to have a more naive leadership team on top of him, ready to make more mistakes.
If Xi’s leadership team were still wise, they should let Wang Yi pay a high price for not making the Czech Republic pay a high price, in exchange for a small chance to reverse China’s international image!
“Author Profile” Wu Kunyu, a teacher at the Tamkang Institute of International and Strategy, previously served as deputy director and spokesperson for the People First Party’s Propaganda Department, and deputy editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Management Breakthrough Magazine.
