How China sows alternative narrative in the West
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China's state-owned media has been nurturing sympathetic Western video bloggers.
PHOTO: REUTERS
LONDON - China's former ambassador to Britain, Mr Liu Xiaoming, who recently left London after an unprecedentedly long 11 years in office, was famously outspoken. The slightest criticism of China from any British official or public figure would earn his instant rebuttal.
Once, when reacting to accusations that China's diplomats are engaged in aggressive "wolf warrior" diplomacy - a term for belligerent nationalism inspired by a Chinese blockbuster film - he retorted that this was only to be expected, "for there are wolves in the world and you need warriors to fight them".
