As it happens, I doubt Chinese pay all that much attention to these kinds of diplomatic bugbears.
Why do you doubt it?
The fact that they took a US military drone in tit-for-tat, suggests that they do pay attention.
If the Chinese wanted it they could leak all those background checks for the US security clearances to Wikileaks or do any number of actions to retaliate more forcefully than just taking a drone as a symbolic action against the symbolic action of a phone call.
Why do you doubt it?
The fact that they took a US military drone in tit-for-tat, suggests that they do pay attention.
If the Chinese wanted it they could leak all those background checks for the US security clearances to Wikileaks or do any number of actions to retaliate more forcefully than just taking a drone as a symbolic action against the symbolic action of a phone call.
I meant the Chinese public. The actual public of most countries is not all that engaged in the ins and outs of these things.
The Chinese public knows what the Chinese media tells them. It’s also very nationalistic.