China: ‘Wolf warrior’ diplomats are not winning the country any friends

FOUR years ago this month, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, held a joint news conference with his Canadian counterpart, Stéphane Dion, in Ottawa wherein a Canadian reporter asked Dion about human rights in China, mentioning Canadian couple Kevin and Julia Garratt who were detained in China in 2014 and accused of spying.

Although the question was directed at Dion, the Chinese foreign minister took it upon himself to respond. He accused the reporter, Amanda Connolly, of prejudice and arrogance.