Posted on 07/09/2023 1:59:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Grovel, grovel, grovel -- what better for a Bidenite than to project American submission?
Before a U.S. dignitary makes an overseas visit to a vital country abroad, such a person is briefed by the State Department -- about how to properly present oneself as a representative of the United States of America to a foreign national in terms they can understand, without unintentionally giving offense or sending the wrong message.
But then there's Janet Yellen, whose trip to China sent a very clear message to China, just through her body language, but presumably not the one she meant: [kowtow video at link]
Cripes, look at that bowing to a top leader of one of the world's foremost currency-manipulating nations...bow, bow again, bow again...it's as if she's saying she's so glad she got to see this guy after so much groveling to get that meeting she just couldn't help herself.
The Chinese, though, would have taken a different message from that groveling ... that she was groveling, or, kowtowing, to use an earlier term. If they were really savvy, which is a possibility, they might have surmised that she was probably terrified she would be fired from her job, as has been swirling around the rumor mill for months, and thus made her bows as a gesture of thanks for showing old Joe Biden back home that she wasn't insignificant.
Whatever it was, it was a bad message of submission and weakness to send, and Yellen should have known better. She is an adult of some seasoning, after all, and should have known to not bow to a foreign dignitary for that reason alone. But even if she didn't know any better, she would have had access to the finest in diplomatic coaching to ensure that she not blunder
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Why not just make it illegal for her to re-enter the U.S.? I think she can be easily replaced.
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