We settled that with a revolution.
Citizen not subject.
True, for Americans...
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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Clown show.
Clown show.
Little different from Barry Obama bowing to the Saudi king. Democrats love being subservient, but that’s not part of the American character.
So pitiful!
Yellen is a fat, ugly, stupid embarrassment. Steve Bannon said that the CCP officials she’s meeting with will not even give her a dinner. While that part is true, Bannon joked that the CCP paid for her Uber to a Chinese restaurant.
There’s no tellin’ what Yellen was smellin’.
She looked ridiculous. Reminds me of a whack-a-mole.
True, for Americans...
That America is gone.
I hadn't thought of it in those terms - but you're right. Not one person on that team has dignity.
A nation that massacres it’s youth through abortion and abortifacient birth control, gets run by the senile and the demented from the nursing home.
Now tell me Obama didn’t teach Janet Yellen how to greet people in Beijing or any other place in the world.
He should know he did two world tours do so.
She MUST BOW TO HER MASTER!.......................
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