If you had Chinese literacy education (which is mandatory) through high school in mainland China, you would not have much problem in understanding those literary expressions.
Thing is Minxin Pei was moderate before. When Gordan Chang showed up you didn't see Minxin Pei much because guess who was hogging the spotlight? Then when he showed up again it was all negative on China in his dull way of talking.
In case Netherlands, on the surface the diplomatic relation was downgraded to charge d'affair for three years until the Dutch government made official promise in never doing it again. That was in the 1980s when China was desperate in accessing to the west.
The white-haired Trong must be an old China hand. They even hugged each other.
Both EU and the U.S. are on the verge of recession. What the U.S. wants to do is to force EU to commit economical suicide with itself.
That report were written by political hacks and it's so full of BS, even an editor of the Foreign Policy can't stand its stench.
Covid investigation has been politicized too much in US. Both sides are trying to paint China bad, either China lab leak evil or China animal eater evil.
No. That's unfair to the researchers at WIV. You do not sacrifice your own people to hopefully gain brownie points with the west. What is the point of developing to be equal to the west if you're going to throw your own people under the bus the first time you get questioned?