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“On the one hand we are seeing shifts, but it’s too early to say these are fundamental shifts. The muzzling of the Wolf Warrior diplomats does not necessarily mean that policies are changing or that China is in the mood to compromise or take other countries’ interests into consideration,” says Drew Thompson, a visiting research scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. “We are seeing a smiling face and Xi Jinping meeting with other countries that had been on ice for a long time, but he is not offering anything. Are...
