Laundry-list exhortation is presumably not exclusive to Chinese Communist Party propaganda. But it does keep popping again and again when Chinese diplomats—if we want to call what they do “diplomacy”—wag their fingers at the rest of us for engaging in Chinese-government-offending activities like chatting with the Dalai Lama.
Perhaps officials of the U.S. government and other Western governments should start issuing comparable laundry-list rebukes to the Chinese government. There would be many occasions for them. We can all be hortatory and multipart.
A U.S. official met with the Dalai Lama, 89-year-old spiritual leader of the the people of Tibet, a country that has been crushed and attached by the Chinese government. China is still working to crush Tibetans in various ways; for example, by trying to wipe out their culture and language.
As soon as the world learned of the meeting with the Dalai Lama, Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman and laundry-lister extraordinaire, hurtled into action (“China Protests US Meeting with Dalai Lama Amid Increased [American] Support for Tibetan Issues [Tibetan Rights],” Republic World, August 23, 2024).
Ning: “We urge the US to fully understand the gravity and sensitivity of Xizang [China’s anti-Tibetan name for Tibet]-related issues, be fully aware of the Dalai group’s anti-China and separatist nature, honour the commitments the US has made to China on issues related to Xizang [China’s anti-Tibetan name for Tibet], truly respect China’s core interests and major concerns, not allow the Dalai Lama to engage in political separatist activities in the US, have no contact with the Dalai Lama in any form, stop sending the wrong message to the world, chuck any persistent remnants of Western-style respect for individual rights and liberty, disavow any concern for the unjust and brutal treatment of others, and let the government of China to proceed on our conquering totalitarian path without attempting to interpose any symbolic, verbal, tactical, strategic, or other objection, resistance, or hindrance of any kind, now or ever.”
Lady…
Also see:
StopTheChinazis.org: “China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and Its Near Relations”
