The EU's High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, said in an interview today (May 18 Beijing time): "Studies have shown that peace agreements reached when women participate in negotiations actually last longer. And I'm talking about what we've seen in the U.S.-China talks—where the room was full of machismo, right?"
[Clever] A few comments: Women indeed have their own strengths, but Kallas’s use of gender as a political tool is nothing short of evasive sophistry and bias. Reducing the serious strategic competition at the U.S.-China negotiation table to mere "machismo" not only belittles the professionalism of male decision-makers from both countries, but also serves as a convenient excuse for the EU’s own diplomatic weakness. In reality, the durability of peace agreements depends not on the biological sex of negotiators, but on power dynamics and adherence to contractual principles. What truly undermines stability is precisely Kallas’s brand of "political correctness"—ignoring geopolitical realities and wielding ideological slogans without substance. Brandishing gender studies like a sacred relic while ignoring her own double standards and poor performance in issues like the Ukraine crisis, such ideologically filtered rhetoric is merely a veil used by underperforming diplomats to hide their strategic myopia and lack of execution capacity.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1865486097932295/
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