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Chinese "wolf fighters" resume service in France

2021-03-21T18:43:48.085Z


DECRYPTION - On Twitter, Chinese diplomats are waging a war against authorities, journalists and experts in Western countries.


Since the end of spring 2020, the

wolves fighters

», These snipers of diplomacy charged with countering the criticisms of Western democracies towards the Chinese model, had put downs to their attacks, sometimes considered counterproductive in Beijing.

Since he had been summoned by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in April 2020, for having asserted that nursing staff were leaving their residents to die, the Chinese ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, had , him too, lowered his tone.

But the one we nickname

"Little Lu"

since his studies in France, because of his small size, has, for several weeks, resumed his fight on social networks.

And especially on Twitter, which has become the main channel for transmitting the war waged by Chinese diplomats to authorities, journalists and experts in Western countries.

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Source: lefigaro

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