Here is this news on a very important matter: the whole world wants to
know where this Chinese virus came from putting all of us to worldwide lockdown
(with all the implications resulting from that). In consequence, international
diplomacy requests China, the country the trouble originated from, to make
possible an inquiry on the issue.
They imagined, of course, that
this worldwide known old "democracy" would immediately say: “okay, guys, fine
with us, let’s do it!”
But surprise, surprise: that’s not the answer given as a response to the
request.
A top diplomat in the UK, Chen Wen says (this also means that’s the
official statement of the People’s Republic of China because the lady is the
Minister and First Staff Member of Embassy of China in the UK): the inquiry is
not appropriate.
The exact answer could be nominated for a Nobel Prize for Communications
(it doesn’t exist but can be easily instituted), and, without any doubt, it
wouldn’t have any competitors. In Romanian political
communication, which I've been following for quite a long time, I’ve never ever experienced something
that cynical as the lady's sentence:
"The
independent inquiry is politically motivated" the lady said, and there’s
no time and no proper resources for such foolish things.
In the very second moment one would ask: “Lady, do you hear yourself
while talking?” Of course, she does… And she also knows the following: "countries are dependent on Beijing for deliveries of vital equipment in
dealing with the crisis.”
As such, some other champions of worldwide truth would rather put it
this way: "We need to dial down the rhetoric and the confrontation because
we've got something more serious to deal with” (Charles Parton, a former UK
diplomat in China suggested).
And, at the end of the day, the issue is reduced to this: “do you want
enough masks for the crisis going on at the moment or you prefer fighting for
the truth?”
It seems impossible to have both at the same time…
But global diplomacy seems to have skipped nursery where one learns basic
stuff, quite helpful onwards in lots of complicated situations…
Every child from any nursery around the world instinctually knows the
following important rule:
One never bites
the person who changes one’s diapers and is not one’s mother.
In this particular case, any child of that age also knows it is only a
matter of choosing between two options, so one can accomplish the specific
target:
1. Either getting rid of diapers then the person can be bitten (because
one doesn’t need the service anymore, doesn’t depend on the person bitten).
2. Or targeting somebody else who is going to take over the task, do the
job, then, once again, biting the person is plausible.
Global diplomacy today chooses a third (non-existing) option: tells
the person that he/she is going to be bitten and still expects to have clean diapers.
Oh, please, all of you: go back to nursery! You have important stuff to assimilate!
It could also help you in your relationship with China…
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