The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, has attracted global attention. On the first day of its opening, the Consul General of the Chinese Consulate in Manchester, England, personally came out to a protest scene and beat up a Hong Kong protestor who was protesting peacefully, causing shockwaves in Britain. The term war-wolf diplomacy surfaced around 2019 when Zhao Lijian used Twitter to slam foreign voices critical of China. Since then, other Chinese diplomats have joined the ban