China's Civilian Army
The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy

[URL not allowed] Peter Martin was a colleague of mine when I started in my current workplace, but left to go back to Beijing as a reporter for Bloomberg. He's now in Washington working Bloomberg's defence beat, but has used his time in China profitably to write this excelle......more

My country’s (Australia) relationship with the People’s Republic of China has been front page for several years now and all for the wrong reasons. It is hard to believe but in 2014 Xi Jinping visited Australia and addressed parliament. Now we are hardly on speaking terms. I wanted to understand the......more

Apologies for the unstructured stream of thought that you’re about to read. Hope you get something useful out of it It is important to really focus on the title of the book before you start reading it. The title of this book is ‘china’s civilian army: Making of the wolf warrior diplomacy’. Making of.......more

This book, which came out recently, is a truly excellent and very accessible look at Chinese diplomacy over the past seventy years. Although clearly written for a popular audience, the book is admirably detailed and well-sourced, and the analysis benefits from the author’s significant time spent in......more

The author traces China’s history of diplomatic efforts contextualized by China’s position in the world and current self-assessment of the day. Each epoch of China’s history has seen a diplomatic approach that reflects China’s view of itself with respect to its position in the world. This self-asses......more