China has turned the page on its aggressive ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy – except when it comes to Japan

By Lewis Eves, Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham

At the recent Munich Security Conference, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, delivered a rebuke of what he said were dangerous trends of militarism in Japan. In a panel discussion, he pointed out comments made in November by the Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, in which she suggested Japan could intervene militarily in the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan.

Wang stressed that these remarks were a direct challenge to China’s national sovereignty,…

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