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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen commits ‘embarrassing’ bow during Beijing visit: ‘Never, ever, ever’
The New York Post ^ | 07/08/2023 | Mary Kay Linge

Posted on 07/08/2023 1:25:36 PM PDT by thegagline

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen committed a string of diplomatic faux pas during her visit to Beijing Saturday, bowing to her Chinese counterpart multiple times without reciprocation — a protocol error that critics flagged as a sign of American weakness.

The Biden administration’s top economic official, on the second day of her four-day effort to mend fences with a major rival, bowed at least three times as she shook hands with Vice Premier He Lifeng, video shows — while He, Xi Jinping’s new economy czar, stood erect, backing away slightly to give the beaming Yellen more room to kowtow.

“Never, ever, ever,” Bradley Blakeman, a senior staffer in George W. Bush’s White House, told The Post. “An American official does not bow. It looks like she’s been summoned to the principal’s office, and that’s exactly the optics the Chinese love.”

“Bowing is not part of the accepted protocol,” agreed Jerome A. Cohen, an emeritus professor at NYU and expert in Chinese law and government.

Moments later, Yellen, 76, tripped over He’s name, calling him “Vice Premier Hu” as she opened the first official American meeting with the economic chief, a Xi loyalist who was named to the post in March. *** The way to treat an adversary is, you don’t go hat in hand,” Blakeman said. “But with this administration, time and time again, we embarrass ourselves and show weakness. And it just shows the lack of effective leverage we have.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: manchurian; yellen; yellenkowtow
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The Manchurian President’s Treasury Secretary kowtows before her overlord.
1 posted on 07/08/2023 1:25:36 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Never send a female mentally ill liberal dwarf to do a mans job


2 posted on 07/08/2023 1:27:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: thegagline

what do you want her to do?

the big guy is bought and paid for


3 posted on 07/08/2023 1:29:49 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: thegagline

The entire Biteme administration is a total embarrassment.


4 posted on 07/08/2023 1:38:16 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: thegagline

I’m surprised that Biden’s envoy didn’t back up to the China man and allow him to make gestures of a rear entry approach for sex. These people are bought, sold and perverse.


5 posted on 07/08/2023 1:39:28 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ronnie raygun

Ha ha.


6 posted on 07/08/2023 1:42:04 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: All

Americans bow to no one.
We settled that with a revoloution.
Citizen not subject.


7 posted on 07/08/2023 1:44:00 PM PDT by Right Brigade (It was better beforhe they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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To: crusty old prospector

Anyone else find this handshake strange? He’s grabbed her wrist like she’s on the way to the reeducation camp.


8 posted on 07/08/2023 1:45:13 PM PDT by WaldenPond (No Taxation Without Representation)
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To: thegagline

The Yellen kow-tow. Xi is laughing his ass off. Stupid old lady ought to be in a home.


9 posted on 07/08/2023 1:47:26 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: thegagline
"bowing to her Chinese counterpart multiple times without reciprocation — a protocol error that critics flagged as a sign of American weakness"

Protocol error?

Not at all.

It was an overt display of obsequiousness, in fact the obsequiousness of the entire Biden Administration, Democrat Party, and all of their hangers-on, a toadying fully comprehended by the obviously disgusted Chinese communists but dangerously lost on the willfully blind decadent half of the US population that supports the Democrats.

10 posted on 07/08/2023 1:52:13 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Going into debt is like taking the canoe out WITH the tide and coming back AGAINST the tide!)
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To: ronnie raygun
… a female mentally ill liberal dwarf…

A Pembroker extraordinaire!

11 posted on 07/08/2023 1:54:02 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: Right Brigade
Many years ago, America's emissary to the Chinese emperor refused to kowtow --

"I kneel only to God and woman."
John E. Ward, 1855

12 posted on 07/08/2023 1:54:25 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Right Brigade

“Americans bow to no one.”

Sounds like you missed the Sparklefarts’ Administration.
WE do now


13 posted on 07/08/2023 1:55:21 PM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: Right Brigade
You must've missed that flop-eared Kenyan we had running around the world a few years ago.
Hell, he was bowing to Burger King there for awhile.
14 posted on 07/08/2023 1:58:05 PM PDT by skimbell ( )
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To: AnAmericanMother

“I kneel only to God and woman.”
John E. Ward, 1855
NICE...


15 posted on 07/08/2023 1:58:54 PM PDT by Right Brigade (It was better beforhe they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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To: WaldenPond

re-education camp? Have you ever heard her talk? She graduated “dumbass come loudly” from it decades ago. She spouts economic mumbojumbo like a true champ and she has never actually understood her job in any of the gummint jobs she’s had. I’ve never thot we need pint sized cretins anywhere near positions of authority. They always get uppity or worse. And at 76 she needs to share Bidum’s vitamins? Maybe the chicom guy actually needed to help her up by the wrist?


16 posted on 07/08/2023 1:58:57 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: OldWarBaby

Or maybe the chicom guy just didn’t know where that hand had been?


17 posted on 07/08/2023 2:00:33 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: thegagline

When I was a kid, there was a toy ostrich that had a volatile liquid inside it. After filling a glass of water, we would dip the ostrich’s beak into the water. The ostrich would kowtow just like Janet Yellen did to her boss’ masters in Beijing.


18 posted on 07/08/2023 2:01:51 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Tupelo

“Sounds like you missed the Sparklefarts’ Administration.
WE do now”

I saw that.
It was a shame then and is now.
Jug ears thought it was a religious experience.
Like bowing before mohammed.


19 posted on 07/08/2023 2:02:09 PM PDT by Right Brigade (It was better beforhe they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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To: thegagline
The new way is the Obama way . . . America Last.


20 posted on 07/08/2023 2:05:23 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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