【中国观察2020年12月10日讯】当地时间周四下午，在中共外交部举行的例行记者会上，有媒体记者提到德国《每日镜报》周二刊发的一篇批评“中国战狼”的文章，并问“发言人对此有何回应？”
主持这次记者会的中共外交部发言人华春莹，借机长篇大论地为该部近年来的表现进行辩解。她声称，一段时间以来，中方与其它国家发生的矛盾都不是中方首先挑起的。她指责对战狼外交的批评是“中国威胁论”的又一翻版，“是一些人给中国量身定做的话语陷阱”。她把中共外交部的战狼表现，描述为对它国所谓颐指气使的行为进行的“反驳”，并矫情地反问，难道要让中方做“沉默的羔羊”？
华春莹接着再次露出“战狼”本色，扬言为了维护中方的所谓“合法权益”及“利益尊严”等等，“就做战狼又何妨？”
外界注意到，就在周四当天，欧盟驻华大使郁白（Nicolas Chapuis）在北京参加一个能源论坛的讨论时表示，欧盟希望与美国在对华政策上达成一致。他说，如果中方准备合作，那么欧美也可以考虑与中方合作；但当必须反对的时候，欧美就要一致反对。郁白说：“我们需要达成一个共识，对霸凌、恐吓和胁迫式外交、‘战狼’外交说‘不’。 ”
有中国网民认为，华春莹的前述说辞，并不是简单针对德国媒体的一篇文章作出回应，更可能是借机对郁白有关反对中共胁迫式外交和战狼外交的发言作出的反应。
还有网友嘲笑说：就在几天前，中共外交部副部长乐玉成还在否认中方搞“战狼外交”，大言不惭地宣称中国是“礼仪之邦、以和为贵”，现在华大妈（指华春莹）终于忍不住，索性不演了？
据中共外交部官网发布的消息，乐玉成12月5日曾在“第三届中国智库国际影响力论坛”发表演讲，声称“给我们贴‘战狼外交’这个标签，至少是对中国外交的误解”。
他还宣称，中国“从来就是礼仪之邦、以和为贵”，“从没有主动挑衅别人，也没有跑到别人家门口、更没有到别人家里去挑事。”他强调，“现在恰恰是别人到我们家门口耀武扬威，对我们的家务事横加干涉”。
对此，德国之声在相关报导中语带讽刺地指出，乐玉成所说的“家务事”，令人联想起近年来中共对香港、维吾尔人以及异议人士实行的严厉打压的政策。
今年5月中旬，德国《图片报》也曾发文，援引柏林全球公共政策研究所所长贝纳（Thorsten Benner）的话指出：“（中共）战狼外交官以兰博风格为中国的利益进行斗争，并以威胁、宣传和散布虚假信息代替外交方式。战狼外交的一个典型人物，就是中国外交部新闻司副司长兼发言人赵立坚。”
众所周知，赵立坚最出名的“战狼言论”，是今年3月在其个人推特账号上发帖，公然声称是美军将中共病毒带到了武汉，结果在遭到美国政府强烈谴责的同时，也招来了众多海外华人网民的冷嘲热讽。
The European Union and the United States should unanimously say no to "coercive diplomacy" and "war wolf diplomacy," the EU ambassador to China said on Thursday (Dec. 10). On the same day, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying responded to criticism of China's "war wolf diplomacy" by saying, "What's the harm in being a war wolf? Some netizens scoffed, "No more pretending?"
(China Watch, Dec. 10, 2020) - At a regular press conference held by the Foreign Ministry of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Thursday afternoon, a media reporter referred to an article published by Germany's Daily Mirror on Tuesday that criticized "China's war wolves" and asked, "What is the spokesperson's response to this? "
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, who chaired the press conference, took the opportunity to defend the ministry's performance in recent years at length. She claimed that for some time now, China has not been the first to provoke conflicts with other countries. She accused the criticism of war-wolf diplomacy as another version of the "China threat theory" and "a tailor-made discourse trap for China by some people. She described the Chinese Foreign Ministry's war-wolf performance as a "rebuttal" to the so-called bossy behavior of other countries, and asked pretentiously whether China should be the "silent lamb".
Hua Chunying went on to reveal her "war wolf" nature again, threatening that in order to safeguard China's so-called "legitimate rights and interests" and "dignity of interests" and so on, "what is the harm in being a war wolf? What's the harm of being a war wolf?"
On Thursday, the EU ambassador to China, Nicolas Chapuis, said during a discussion at an energy forum in Beijing that the EU hopes to reach an agreement with the US on its policy toward China. If China is ready to cooperate, he said, then Europe and the United States can also consider cooperating with China; but when it must oppose, Europe and the United States must unanimously oppose. We need to reach a consensus and say 'no' to bullying, intimidation and coercive diplomacy, 'war wolf' diplomacy," Yu Bai said. "
Some Chinese netizens believe that Hua Chunying's aforementioned remarks were not simply a response to an article in the German media, but more likely an opportunity to react to Yu Bai's statement about opposing the CCP's coercive diplomacy and war-wolf diplomacy.
Some netizens also ridiculed that just a few days ago, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng was denying that China was engaging in "war wolf diplomacy" and loudly proclaiming that China is a "state of etiquette and peace is precious", but now Auntie Hua (referring to Hua Chunying) finally couldn't resist and simply stopped acting. Now Auntie Hua (Hua Chunying) has finally given up and stopped acting?
According to the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China, Le Yucheng gave a speech at the "Third Forum on the International Influence of Chinese Think Tanks" on December 5, claiming that "to label us as 'war wolf diplomacy' is at least a misunderstanding of China's diplomacy. He also asserted that China's "diplomacy is not a good one".
He also declared that China "has always been a country of etiquette and peace is precious" and "has never taken the initiative to provoke others, nor has it gone to the doorstep of others, let alone to their homes to stir up trouble." He stressed that "now it is precisely others who come to our doorstep to flaunt their power and interfere in our domestic affairs."
In response, Deutsche Welle sarcastically noted in a related report that Le Yucheng's reference to "domestic affairs" was reminiscent of the Chinese Communist Party's policy of harshly suppressing Hong Kong, Uighurs and dissidents in recent years.
In mid-May this year, the German newspaper "Die Presse" also published an article quoting Thorsten Benner, director of the Institute for Global Public Policy in Berlin, as saying, "The [Chinese Communist Party's] war-wolf diplomats fight for China's interests in Rambo style and replace diplomacy with threats, propaganda and the dissemination of disinformation. A typical figure of war-wolf diplomacy is Zhao Lijian, deputy director general of the Information Department and spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry."
As we all know, Zhao Lijian's most famous "war wolf comment" was a post on his personal Twitter account in March this year, blatantly claiming that the U.S. military brought the Chinese Communist virus to Wuhan, which was strongly condemned by the U.S. government and also attracted many overseas Chinese netizens' cynicism and ridicule.