On Twitter, Bill Birtles is surprised: “Can you imagine any other group of professional diplomats in the world that operates in this way in their host country?” This former correspondent in China for the Australian media ABC reacts to the post of his colleague Ishaan Tharoor, columnist of the Washington Post. According to him, the Chinese Embassy in the United States sent American journalists a five-chapter brochure on “American hegemony and its perils”.
This official document, titled “The hegemonic intimidation of the United States and its dangers” in Chinese and published on February 20 by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was widely reported by the country’s media, including the Beijing daily. Beijing Ribao.
“After experiencing two world wars and the Cold War, and becoming the world’s leading power, the United States has become even more ruthless, violently interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, seeking hegemony and abusing, engaging in subversive infiltration and arbitrarily launching wars, to the detriment of the international community”, unvarnishedly accuses this document from its introduction.
“So-called democracy”
On the five aspects of American hegemony den
