wolf warrior

English

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 戰狼／战狼 (zhànláng), taken from the movie Wolf Warrior 2.

Noun

wolf warrior (plural wolf warriors)

  1. (neologism) A Chinese diplomat perceived to respond aggressively towards criticism of Communist China.
    wolf-warrior diplomacy
    • 2020 May 12, Kathrin Hille, “‘Wolf warrior’ diplomats reveal China’s ambitions”, in Financial Times‎[1], archived from the original on 3 July 2020:
      China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats — named after a set of films in which Chinese special-operations fighters defeat western-led mercenaries — have emerged over the past three years. But the virus has pushed their combative tactics to the centre of Beijing’s foreign policy approach.
    • 2022, Axel Berkofsky, Giulia Sciorati, editors, China’s Foreign Policies Today: Who is in Charge of What‎[2], Ledizioni, →ISBN:
      Wolf-warrior diplomacy is a manifestation of Xi's effort to shift toward assertive diplomacy away from the low-profile diplomacy engineered by Deng and practised by Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.
    • 2022, Natalia V. Selznova, “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy – Foreign Policy for Internal Use in China”, in Управление и политика (Governance and Politics), volume 1, number 2, pages 45-48:
      The starting point for the promotion of the concept of “wolf warrior diplomacy” was the altercation between Zhao Lijian and Susan Rice on Twitter [in July 2019]... After this event, the media lexicon began to include first the phrase zhan langshi waijiao (战狼式外交) and then zhan lang waijiao (战狼外 交) “wolf warrior diplomacy”.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wolf warrior.

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