China’s ‘wolf warrior diplomacy’ has ‘demonstrably failed’

ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre's Professor John Blaxland says China’s “wolf warrior diplomacy” has “demonstrably failed”.

“Looking at the intense side of the equation, the rhetoric has been incredibly adversarial, we’ve been talked about being squashed under shoes,” he told Sky News host Catherine McGregor.

“All sorts of really threatening language has been used about lobbing missiles at us ... and the 14 demands going back a while but it’s blown back on China.

“The bottom line is it hasn’t been effective and there seems to have been a little bit of a ratcheting back on the wolf warrior diplomacy lately because it’s demonstrably failed.

“It is the reason why the Quad works. The Quad works because India, Japan, Australia and the United States are all thinking if we don’t band together, this is going to come to haunt us.”