wolf warrior
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Chinese diplomat perceived to respond aggressively towards criticism of Communist China.
Example Sentences
- "wolf-warrior diplomacy"
- "China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats — named after a set of films in which Chinese special-operations fighters defeat western-led mercenaries — have emerged over the past three years. But the virus has pushed their combative tactics to the centre of Beijing’s foreign policy approach."
- "Wolf-warrior diplomacy is a manifestation of Xi's effort to shift toward assertive diplomacy away from the low-profile diplomacy engineered by Deng and practised by Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao."
- "The starting point for the promotion of the concept of “wolf warrior diplomacy” was the altercation between Zhao Lijian and Susan Rice on Twitter [in July 2019]... After this event, the media lexicon began to include first the phrase zhan langshi waijiao (战狼式外交) and then zhan lang waijiao (战狼外 交) “wolf warrior diplomacy”."