“I am sure that as long as they are re-educated, the Taiwanese public will become patriotic again.”

Listen to the interview of Lu Shaye, ambassador of China in France. For the less willing, the offending and scandalous parts begin in the fifteenth minute: Re-educate to become good Chinese again.

Ambassador Lu Shaye is the champion of the philosophy of the warrior wolf, the diplomat with little assertiveness and aggressive tones up to the verbal confrontation.

The theme of the dual nature of Chinese diplomacy is singular, sometimes so soft as to be impalpable, sometimes so aggressive as to produce friction, a modus operandi so primitive as to be predictable. But let’s go in order.

The last few weeks have been marked by the visit of half the free world to the sovereign Xi Jinping at the court in Beijing. Sanchez, Macron, Von der Laeyen and finally the newly elected Carioca Lula da Silva all waiting for a word from the enlightened for the solution of the military conflicts in Ukraine and to understand how Xi Jinping’s multipolar world would like to be.

Naturally, the emperor said nothing, if anyone had hoped to hear something new and interesting, because he has nothing to say, while his defense minister, Li Shangfu, visited his Russian counterpart Shoigu in Moscow and with them the chief of the Borisov space agency and the head of military collaboration Shugaev.

All together they spoke of cooperation and new missiles to be ready for use, as comforting as reviewing Kubrick’s “Strangelove” and hearing Peskov, the spokesman of Vladimir the Terrible, say that the nuclear issue is Western propaganda.

Craig Hill, dean of China facts from China News, reminds us that Beijing has territorial claims against 23 countries while only bordering 14, and considers the Hawaiian islands and distant Hindukush valleys its own. Beijing’s appetites go beyond Taiwan and the soft power of a world adopting the yuan.

China Daily columnist Zhang Monan notes with satisfaction, blessed youth, that dollar reserves in Israel have dropped from 66.5% to 61% of the total, while Brazil sees yuan reserves increase from 1.21% to 4 .99%, but it would not be a bad idea to ask the young ladies in the lobbies of five-star hotels in Shanghai which currency they prefer between the US dollar and the Chinese yuan.

The sovereign also complains that the Russian vassal has the same aspirations and dreams of returning to the gates of Trieste and Berlin. How surprising if Lu Shaye declares the independence of the former Soviet states irrelevant and the hands of time should go back more than thirty years.

The ambassador thus angered everyone, the Baltics and Europe to which these countries are members of the community, but also France where Lu Shaye lives and works and the Ukrainians, which would be a suburb of Moscow and as such illegitimate and rebellious .

The phone call between Emperor Xi Jinping and the Ukrainian president in the last few days is a subsequent chapter in the buddy movie of the Sino-Russian couple: one is good and the other is bad, one talks about negotiations and the other throws bombs . The perennial scheme of hybrid and dual diplomacy is therefore gross – Lu Shaye says one thing and Xi Jinping says nothing.

We are not at war but at the desire to create a new world order made up of ancient borders; the Rubicon has been crossed, but it must not be said. The net consequences of the Ukrainian war will be challenging for the West. It will increase our GDP’s share of military spending to well over 2%.

Welfare quotas between education, health and social security will be reduced and the war industry will produce new technology with positive effects on employment and in the civil sector.

The confidentiality of the defense sector will require greater attention, protecting us from the theft of intellectual property by the Chinese, who will no longer be considered partners but privateers, making the duo Forchielli and Scacciavillani happy, pop preachers and new Savonarolas of the Western world (Italian editor’s note, top entrepreneurs and commentators).

Having written this, of the world in arms, I am not happy at all.

This article was originally published on the Italian language site http://www.altriorienti.com

Categories: Politics & Law

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