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EU-China: Drop the Masks, Back to Real Diplomacy. Egmont Commentary 8 January 2021.

Biscop, Sven (2021) EU-China: Drop the Masks, Back to Real Diplomacy. Egmont Commentary 8 January 2021. [Policy Paper]

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    Abstract

    Diplomacy in 2020 was mostly about shifting the blame and creating distraction. China’s “mask diplomacy” sought to portray the People’s Republic as benign and effective. The world and, more importantly, its own citizens were to forget its careless disregard for human life and its initial obfuscation of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Russia too engaged in “mask diplomacy” at first (and the usual disinformation) before discovering that a pandemic is a symmetric crisis: it spares nobody.

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > External relations > common foreign & security policy 1993--European Global Strategy
    EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-US
    EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-Asia-general > East and Southeast Asia
    Other international institutions > NATO
    Countries > China
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Egmont : Royal Institute for International Affairs > Commentaries
    Depositing User: Daniel Pennell
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 18 Oct 2021 13:34
    Number of Pages: 5
    Last Modified: 18 Oct 2021 13:34
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/103663

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