Wolf warrior diplomacy, it’s bullshit. Let’s call it what it is, it is pure unadulterated trolling by the Chinese government on social media accounts by government officials under instruction from President Xi Jinping.

The term wolf warrior comes from the movie of the same name starring Jing Wu as Leng Feng. Released in 2015, the movie with an estimated budget of $12,000,000 returned slightly over $81,000,000 as worldwide receipts. Fair enough, the movie is considered to be a financial success. I have not seen this movie so I have to rely on published story lines. A Chinese special forces soldier is confronted by foreign mercenaries contracted by a drug lord to kill the star. There have been multitudes of patriotic American heroes from Rambo to Die Hard taking down the bad guys one at a time.

As a genre, it is not to my liking and I try not to watch these action movies so this isn’t an issue with me. So naturally, I would have no problems with Chinese movies stirring up patriotic pride. Where the problems arise from is government officials acting in an aggressive manner adapting these so called wolf warrior tactics.

Diplomacy shouldn’t take place on Twitter, to be fair, the Chinese could argue former President Donald Trump undertook Twitter diplomacy – not to a high standard either. The CCP is engaging in social media diplomacy by trolling accounts by not only state funded and brainless xiǎo fěnhóng but government officials – very poor.