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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Never send a female mentally ill liberal dwarf to do a mans job
what do you want her to do?
the big guy is bought and paid for
The entire Biteme administration is a total embarrassment.
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.
Ha ha.
Americans bow to no one.
We settled that with a revoloution.
Citizen not subject.
Anyone else find this handshake strange? He’s grabbed her wrist like she’s on the way to the reeducation camp.
The Yellen kow-tow. Xi is laughing his ass off. Stupid old lady ought to be in a home.
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.
A Pembroker extraordinaire!
"I kneel only to God and woman."
John E. Ward, 1855
“Americans bow to no one.”
Sounds like you missed the Sparklefarts’ Administration.
WE do now
“I kneel only to God and woman.”
John E. Ward, 1855
NICE...
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?
Or maybe the chicom guy just didn’t know where that hand had been?
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.
“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.
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