ESSAY: China's foreign minister Wang Yi speaks!

China FM Wang Yi deceives, dissimulates, dispenses disinformation, tells tall tales, weaves, fabricates, falsifies, lies, spins, contrives, pretends, fakes, uses mendacious reasoning and prevaricates.

Chinese “neutrality” is an oxymoron. China’s self-described “principled position” on Ukraine, its “always above-board” stance, and its professed steadfast commitment to peace and negotiation are linguistic dodges covering up a cruel, cold and calculating foreign policy.

China’s talking points on Ukraine are a pro-Russian cock-and-bull story.

Wang Yi’s news conference at the Great Hall was not the top news of the day on Xinwen Lianbo’s extended nightly news program of March 7, 2024. To get there, the viewer had to first endure interminable photo ops of Xi Jinping in mufti entering the room to raucous applause, Xi Jinping speaking while listeners jotted down notes, Xi Jinping leaving the room to raucous applause, various vox populi “interviews” of Chinese and foreigners singing praise of Xi, and voice-over narration laying down the party line.

After all there can be only so much news produced by a rubber stamp parliament going through the motions of “whole-process democracy” for the cam…