my problem isn't so much with the wolf warrior diplomacy, after all this kind of diplomacy has been used by the west for long time and they are pretty successful in it. Despite the west kept saying that wolf warrior diplomacy is a failure, the fact that dalai lama hasn't travelled much these days, and australia hasn't joined the xinjiang sanction days ago, showed that this policy work. Of course, Chinese diplomats also need to becareful on not just relying on hardball diplomacy. There are time for hardball, there are time for softball.

my problem is that obsolete and ineffective propaganda media like xinhua or CGTN, is an achiles heel to Chinese diplomacy. In diplomacy, you need hardpower like the wolf warrior diplomacy, you also need softpower that effective propaganda media can bring. Hardly anyone watch xinhua or CGTN. Infact, Globaltimes probably a more effective outlet, just like RT, in getting the attention.

Meanwhile Chinese tv series is widely watch, at least in Asia. That is softpower, and China should let them bloom, instead of curtailing it for stupid reason like showing tattoos.