John Robson: Beijing’s Turn Toward Cute Puppy Diplomacy Shouldn’t Be Trusted

John Robson: Beijing’s Turn Toward Cute Puppy Diplomacy Shouldn’t Be Trusted
A China Central Television news broadcast shows footage of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, on a giant screen outside a shopping mall in Beijing on June 19, 2023. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
John Robson
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One of Robson’s Rules of History is “Never attack the Anglosphere.” Doing so might seem redundant these days given the harm we’re already inflicting on ourselves, from fiscal policy to gender. But free societies possess an extraordinary resilience tyrannies can neither understand nor match. And the runner’s faltering steps, laboured breathing, and uneasy looks in China’s “Hundred Year Marathon” show a serious problem.

John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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