[The Epoch Times, March 4, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Fang Xiao) Recently, a video of Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister of the Communist Party of China, from 18 years ago was unearthed. At that time, Sino-Japanese relations were deteriorating. Wang Yi participated in the Tokyo fashion show “Cool Movement” and walked the catwalk on the catwalk to “improve Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations.” In recent years, with the shift in the CCP’s diplomatic strategy, Wang Yi’s “wolf warrior” nature has been clearly revealed.
From 2001 to 2004, Wang Yi served as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China. After that, he served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Communist Party of China to Japan until 2007.
The unearthed video is a clip from the “Cool Movement” fashion show held in Tokyo, Japan, in June 2006. At that time, Wang Yi, who was serving as the ambassador of the Communist Party of China to Japan, appeared as a model in a Chinese-style white shirt and walked on the T stage. A catwalk.
The models who walked the show that night came from political circles and social celebrities. At that time, top Japanese politicians such as Junichiro Koizumi, Shinzo Abe, and Seichi Tanigaki appeared one after another. Among them, Junichiro Koizumi’s cool dress made of traditional Okinawa fabrics became the focus.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has visited the Yasukuni Shrine every year for six consecutive years since he took office in 2001. During this period, Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated and fell into a downturn.
Wang Yi’s participation in the “Cool Movement” fashion show in Japan in June 2006 was seen as an attempt to improve Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations and downplay the usual tit-for-tat scenes between Chinese and Japanese officials. After walking on stage, he told the media, “I hope the ‘cool dress movement’ will become popular in Asia.”
However, on August 15 of that year, Junichiro Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine again.
The Chinese Communist Party issued another statement to strongly protest. The Chinese Communist Party officials had known that Koizumi would visit the Yasukuni Shrine before that. On August 14 of that year, they did not make any speech or issue any warning. Only the official “Xinhuanet” published a short article saying, “It is expected that Koizumi will visit the Yasukuni Shrine tomorrow.” ”.
Wang Yi was born in Beijing in 1953. He has served in the diplomatic system of the Communist Party of China for 40 years and is currently a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In recent years, as Chinese Communist Party leaders abandoned Deng Xiaoping’s “hide your strength and bide your strength” diplomatic strategy, Chinese diplomats, especially Wang Yi, have become known as “wolf warriors” – displaying arrogant and combative rhetoric.
The Financial Times once quoted a former reporter who had dealt with Wang Yi as saying that Wang Yi practiced “a more refined kind of Wolf Warrior…with that kind of biting acrimony.”
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2024-03-04 15:52:00