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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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Look at them look at each other -- what really went through every godless confucian scumbag hivemind at that moment when Smellen bent over was "Not even with your tiny noodle."

So tired of these mandarins, we should be encouraging revolutionary internal strife in China, there is no amount of money better spent than watching Xi hang from a Tiananmen Square.

21 posted on 07/08/2023 2:06:02 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: thegagline

A sign of American weakness?????? CHEESE and RICE!!!!

The regime is criminal, not weak.


22 posted on 07/08/2023 2:07:48 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (It's The Clown Show.)
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To: thegagline

Can’t wait for Biden’s European Tour this week.


23 posted on 07/08/2023 2:07:52 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Dr. Sivana

It’s Barry’s 3rd term.


24 posted on 07/08/2023 2:11:13 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (It's The Clown Show.)
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To: thegagline

Janet, here’s your (kick me) sign.


25 posted on 07/08/2023 2:11:38 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: thegagline; All

Another Biden administration fail. Diplomats are educated on proper protocols in foreign nations prior to the visit.


26 posted on 07/08/2023 2:11:50 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: thegagline

Just sending the failed former Fed Reserve president to represent the US was embarrassing enough before any bowing took place.


27 posted on 07/08/2023 2:17:56 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: thegagline

How embarrassing. In fact, the whole Administration is embarrassing. If they aren’t kowtowing, receiving bribes, and sponsoring Pride parades, they’re stealing suitcases.


28 posted on 07/08/2023 2:20:27 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: thegagline; bitt

Oba-Mao disciple ping.


29 posted on 07/08/2023 2:21:29 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: Savage Beast

Kow towing.


30 posted on 07/08/2023 2:22:19 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: thegagline; Red Badger

Next time, lets get Janet to turn around and twerk for He/him.


31 posted on 07/08/2023 2:22:57 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: KittyKares

I forgot to add snorting coke in the White House.


32 posted on 07/08/2023 2:23:31 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: thegagline

The Biden white house is full of diversity hires that turn out to be post turtles.


33 posted on 07/08/2023 2:25:55 PM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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I saw the clip.

She looked delighted to be kowtowing, er, bowing to this guy.

On purpose, is my guess.


34 posted on 07/08/2023 2:27:22 PM PDT by Jane Long (W hat we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Pathetic POS.


35 posted on 07/08/2023 2:28:44 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: ronnie raygun

Bowing to her Master, TRUTH!


36 posted on 07/08/2023 2:33:33 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: ronnie raygun

Yes, indeed.


37 posted on 07/08/2023 2:44:44 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Cobra64

This whole regime and the whole KKKommiecrat party are pathetic.


38 posted on 07/08/2023 2:45:21 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: TornadoAlley3

May he never return from that!


39 posted on 07/08/2023 2:45:53 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: wjcsux

My thoughts exactly!


40 posted on 07/08/2023 2:46:04 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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