David Bandurski, The Guardian: China’s new diplomacy in Europe has a name: broken porcelain
Beijing’s message to Sweden and beyond – criticise us, and we’ll topple your agenda – won’t win it any hearts and minds
Two days after Sweden’s election in September, a bizarre statement appeared in English on the website of the Chinese embassy in Stockholm. A “small handful of Swedish forces, media and individuals”, it said, had made “unwarranted claims” of Chinese interference in the Swedish vote. These were “groundless accusations”, and a “malicious attack and smear against China”. The strangest thing of all: no one in Sweden had the slightest inkling what the statement referred to.
Read more ....
WNU Editor: The sad part is that this Chinese tactic of playing the "victim" is working. It distracts the foreign media and governments to focus on these events, while bigger events are ignored. The Chinese also use this to whip their own population base, and to reinforce their message that the world is envious of China's success, and are putting roadblocks to its future.
