People, especially those living in powerful countries, tend to assume that events in foreign lands are related to their own concerns.
Quite possibly, nothing. In any case, no one knows, at least no one peering from the outside through the opaque glass of the Middle Kingdom.whether Qin—a fluent English speaker and basketball fan who had previously been China’s ambassador to the United States—was too moderate for the assertively nationalistic “wolf warriors” running Beijing’s diplomatic corps., and had even fathered a child, with a Hong Kong TV newscaster.
Christopher Johnson, president of the Chinese Strategies Group and formerly the CIA’s top China analyst, thinks the affair is the most likely explanation. He also thinks it’s unlikely that Qin got in trouble with the wolf warriors. “When Qin was ambassador, he was known to get it out there”—i.e., to spout ultranationalist rhetoric—“with the best of them,” Johnson told me in a phone conversation Tuesday.In any case, the transfer of power will probably have no effect on Beijing’s policies.
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