As China reopens, Xi Jinping seems keen to repair his country’s foreign relations. But there is a critical flaw in the plan
, unlike the previous year, and none of the dark warnings about external forces that he voiced at a Communist Party congress in October. “We cherish peace and development and value friends and partners,” he said on December 31st. At home, meanwhile, it is “only natural for different people to have different concerns or hold different views on the same issue,” he added., including with Australia and other countries long in Mr Xi’s bad books. The sweet talk has even extended to America.
Several foreign governments have been critical, too, with at least 32 imposing restrictions on travellers from China as of January 10th, mostly requiring a negative covid test result . With notable chutzpah, China has denounced such measures as politically motivated and threatened counter-measures—while maintaining its own demand that arrivals show a negativetest result.
Ryan Hass of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank in Washington, suggests that Mr Xi may be emulating Mao Zedong’s strategy in the 1940s of “fight fight, talk talk”, buying time to regroup and study opponents.
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