https://thediplomat.com/2021/10/chin...ker-mentality/
China’s AUKUS Response Highlights Beijing’s Bunker Mentality
Beijing seems completely unwilling – or unable – to consider its own actions might be feeding the “China containment” push.
Beijing is in overdrive to respond to the news that Australia will build nuclear-powered submarines, thanks to technology being shared by the United States and the United Kingdom. No event since China’s 2016 loss to the Philippines in an international arbitration case over disputed waters in the South China Sea has evoked such a howl from Chinese officialdom.….
Initially, China’s response was characterized by statements calling AUKUS “extremely irresponsible.” A
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that the pact “seriously undermines regional peace and intensifies the arms race.” The reaction was, diplomatically speaking, strong but measured.
But the language from China’s official news outlets devolved into insults, threats, contempt, and disparagement.……