The PRC is blaming the Indians for the deadly border conflict while still not confirming or releasing any details on PLA casualties - Chinese FM urges closer China-India communication to maintain border peace - Xinhua
One reason why we still have not seen a clear public response from China to the fight with India, besides a few statements from PLA Western Command and MFA, is that Beijing has been busy.
The top propaganda event this week has been Xi Jinping’s big Africa summit. It would not have been nice to disturb Xi’s big party.
The top foreign policy guy, Yang Jiechi, was in Hawaii to meet Pompeo. There must have been some bandwidth dedicated to Sino-US relations.
Meanwhile, in domestic politics, the NPC Standing Committee meeting began today and it turned out they will discuss the new Hong Kong national security law. Beijing’s new Covid-19 outbreak is now under control, but that was a thing as well.
Beijing is calling for de-escalation while trying to keep the peace, but I am sure it is preparing for a response. The question is what that response will be. Perhaps we will know after the NPC SC meeting concludes.
Regarding the Quincy Institute attack claiming think tanks receiving money from Taiwan hide it, Bonnie Glaser pointed out on Twitter that the acknowledgement pages in her CSIS reports all mention Taiwanese funding. The author blamed not reading that on not receiving a reply to his emails to the institute.
One reason why we still have not seen a clear public response from China to the fight with India, besides a few statements from PLA Western Command and MFA, is that Beijing has been busy.
The top propaganda event this week has been Xi Jinping’s big Africa summit. It would not have been nice to disturb Xi’s big party.
The top foreign policy guy, Yang Jiechi, was in Hawaii to meet Pompeo. There must have been some bandwidth dedicated to Sino-US relations.
Meanwhile, in domestic politics, the NPC Standing Committee meeting began today and it turned out they will discuss the new Hong Kong national security law. Beijing’s new Covid-19 outbreak is now under control, but that was a thing as well.
Beijing is calling for de-escalation while trying to keep the peace, but I am sure it is preparing for a response. The question is what that response will be. Perhaps we will know after the NPC SC meeting concludes.
Regarding the Quincy Institute attack claiming think tanks receiving money from Taiwan hide it, Bonnie Glaser pointed out on Twitter that the acknowledgement pages in her CSIS reports all mention Taiwanese funding. The author blamed not reading that on not receiving a reply to his emails to the institute.