Do we like them?Do we like Wang Yi?
Our score: 3 out of 10. He is a state spokesman with a sharp tongue and little personal record on LGBTQ+ or climate issues, so we're sitting low and mixed.
Wang Yi is not a celebrity so much as a career diplomat, and a very senior one. China's foreign minister has been at the top of Beijing's foreign policy for years, and in the reporting we opened he appears as the face of the government's line rather than as a personality with a public life of his own. That matters for how you read everything below: much of what he says is the party line, delivered by him.
The best-known flashpoint we could open is the 2016 Ottawa press conference. A Canadian journalist asked about human rights and the detention of Canadian citizens in China, and Wang called the question “full of prejudice against China and arrogance”. The Canadian Press recounted it again in January 2026 when Canada's foreign minister said she hoped to welcome him to Canada. It shows a man with a short fuse when the subject turns to rights.
The harm check comes up thin on the issues this page cares most about. We found no words of his on LGBTQ+ or trans people, women or the climate, and nothing about the company he keeps that fits the slide into conspiracy theories or grievance. We did not manage to open a clean page on his remarks about Xinjiang or Hong Kong, so that is a gap, not a clear result. What we did read is a lot of hard-edged rhetoric on sovereignty and Taiwan.
The Japan stoush is the live one. At the Munich Security Conference in February 2026, he accused “far-right forces” in Japan of trying to revive militarism, and Tokyo lodged a formal protest, calling his claims “factually incorrect and ungrounded”. The row dates back to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's November 2025 comments on Taiwan. Whether you hear that as a legitimate warning or as bullying a neighbour depends on where you start with Taiwan.
On the other side of the ledger, his lines on the wider world are not all menace. In January 2026 he said China has never believed any country can play the role of an international policeman when the US raided Venezuela. In March he called the Iran war a conflict that should never have happened. He also reportedly backed Pakistan's mediation efforts, though we did not open a page on that.
Overall, the record we could verify is mostly a diplomat doing his job, and the job comes with ugly baggage. We found no court outcomes, no allegations against him personally and no charity work. That's honestly the whole list. With so little of the personal side in view, we can't give him more than a low, uncertain score.