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The Great Kowtow: Janet Yellen bows to China
American Thinker ^ | 9 Jul, 2023 | Monica Showalter

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: china; communism; yellen
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1 posted on 07/09/2023 1:59:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I bet she borrowed Kamalas knee pads.


2 posted on 07/09/2023 1:59:24 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yellen’s just a chip off the ole Obama.


3 posted on 07/09/2023 2:01:16 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: MtnClimber
she would have had access to the finest in diplomatic coaching to ensure that she not blunder

Eh - they're prolly the ones who told her to do it.

4 posted on 07/09/2023 2:02:14 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: MtnClimber

The Great Kow Kowtows. Whoda thunk?


5 posted on 07/09/2023 2:03:11 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MtnClimber

The Great Kow Kowtows. Whoda thunk?


6 posted on 07/09/2023 2:03:11 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MtnClimber

The Great Kow Kowtows. Whoda thunk?


7 posted on 07/09/2023 2:03:11 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MtnClimber

Janet, stop your Yellen.


8 posted on 07/09/2023 2:03:23 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: MtnClimber

2020 = Message Of Submission

Rigging comes with a high price.


9 posted on 07/09/2023 2:05:21 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: MtnClimber

Is she using expertise with Chinese customs to gain an advantage in negotiating. Being sly, calculating and shrewd?

Or is she acknowledging their dominance?


10 posted on 07/09/2023 2:08:51 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Vaduz

She’s an embarrassment like most in the Biden regime.


11 posted on 07/09/2023 2:11:36 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: parmamenian

Indeed we have been shamed by them.


12 posted on 07/09/2023 2:31:20 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: MtnClimber

They pay her more than we pay her, therefore she bows to them!


13 posted on 07/09/2023 2:38:59 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: MtnClimber

She must be taking advice from O-Bow-Ma.


14 posted on 07/09/2023 2:43:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yellen was bobbing like a duck

quack quack quack


15 posted on 07/09/2023 2:55:36 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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>Yellen was bobbing like a duck

Whatever aide the Chinese have provided Biden during the 2020 election will be reversed because the Neocons are gunning for China next and Trump II is the only way to avoid it (and possibly get all these Neocons fired).


16 posted on 07/09/2023 2:57:50 PM PDT by struggle
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To: MtnClimber

Yellen is just following in fellow Dem footsteps of Obozo, He bowed to every body around the World.


17 posted on 07/09/2023 3:03:13 PM PDT by chopperk
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0bama bowed, especially if there was a gay person behind his behind.


18 posted on 07/09/2023 3:05:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Chinese invented the term kowtow. The DemocRats are perfecting it.


19 posted on 07/09/2023 3:30:31 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: Phoenix8

Or is she acknowledging their dominance?
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Every one knows we simply can not win a military conflict with China…. and it is starting to look like we will also lose a financial conflict.

Bow down Yellen,and hope Xi doesn’t disclose all the money he spent bribing senile Joe.


20 posted on 07/09/2023 3:59:29 PM PDT by delta7
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