China is increasingly using “hostage diplomacy” in international affairs, say experts, following the detention of an Australian news anchor in Beijing this month as tensions escalate between the two countries.
A new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that China has been much more inclined to use this kind of coercive diplomacy lately, with incidents happening across 28 countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia and among other Asian countries.
The sharp increase in diplomatic incidents like these started in 2018, according to the report, which comes to the conclusion that the only way for the rest of the world to counter these “divide and conquer” tactics is through global multilateral institutions.
The report found 152 total cases of coercive diplomacy used by the Chinese regime and 34 cases in the first eight months of this year.
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