The globla south look up to China because they believe China can bring a truly "rule based order".
They're tired of America's bullying and arrogance and China is the only country that can put them in their place. They admire China because China stands largely alone, and successfully, against not only the US but several dozen of its henchmen who wish to preserve the Anglo world order.
And when Putin is calling America "Empire of Lies" publicly
Which is undeniably true, and the West needs to hear it, they need to know that they aren't the only ones who can run their mouths off in disrespect.
, you are suggesting China should keep yelling "Open Fort Derrick"?
You understand this only came because the US accused Wuhan's BSL4 of creating COVID, right? They baselessly said that China needs to open our BSL4 lab to their checks in order to clear that accusation and floated that China should pay the world reparations for COVID damage. China doesn't need to sit silently and hope that the smarter people of the world understand that this silence comes as the most intelligent answer to the most retarded accusations. The world is not made of mostly smart people, certainly not the West, not the global south, not even China. The world is made of people who get more aggressive and more egged on as they find that they can trash talk you and get nothing in return; to them, your silence is admittance and the inability to defend yourself and nothing gets a bully going more than when he perceives defenselessness. So with that said, China's response, to counterclaim that COVID could have came from Detrick and that needs to be opened for inspection, is actually a parody of American stupidity, not a serious claim. It is the right answer and China is honestly being too nice and too trusting of other's intelligence to
not hire more verbally aggressive PR people to show the West that we can do everything better than them including mud-slinging and character assassination.
It's dumb that you think China should silently let the US run their filthy mouths and that Russians should as well.
You should be.
I'm even more glad that China is run by brutly pragmatists and chinese officials don't need to "win" on media.
Well, doing something is endlessly more important than saying something; that's certain, but that doesn't mean that those things shouldn't be said as well without wasting any efforts on the doing part.