Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?]
Jun 12, 2022
2 minutes
STEPHEN DAVIS
One of the easiest ways to influence people is to make them afraid. Psychologists have long understood that we are not the rational creatures we think we are and fear can drive our emotions.
Politicians understand that, too, and so it was that China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, talking to foreign ministers from Pacific island nations, confronted the issue of Sinophobia with soothing words:
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