China media’s tribute to Xi’s ‘double-fisted’ foreign policy counters critics at home, SE Asia

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A People’s Daily commentary on the one-and-half-year rule of President Xi Jinping has thus characterized the Chinese strongman’s unique approach to foreign policy: alternatively using tough and soft tactics so as to close the gap with the United States as the leading arbiter in global affairs.

A screen at a Beijing junction shows a speech by Xi Jinping. /Wang Wei/EPA

The extraordinary article, entitled “Chasing dream in the past 18 months: Xi Jinping’s three major contributions,” focuses on the Communist Party General Secretary and commander-in-chief’s three achievements: fighting corruption, maintaining steady economic growth and waging a vigorous foreign policy.

The commentary has confirmed Xi’s crucial role in crafting a so-called “double fisted foreign policy” by substituting late patriarch Deng Xiaoping’s “take a low profile” diplomacy with an aggressive posture particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.

Examples cited to illustrate Xi’s get-touch approach include: the designation of an Air Defense Identification Zone over the East China Sea; the frequent deployment of marine vessels and jetfighters close to the disputed Diaoyu-Senkaku islands; and moving an oil rig to areas near the Paracel Islands that are also claimed by Vietnam.

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