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‘Shows Weakness’: Janet Yellen Fumbles Etiquette In China
Daily Caller ^ | 7/8/23 | Nick Pope

Posted on 07/08/2023 5:43:15 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made two diplomatic mistakes Saturday when greeting her counterpart from China, according to The New York Post.

First, Yellen bowed multiple times to China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng, who did not reciprocate the gesture, according to footage of the event. Yellen then proceeded to bungle Lifeng’s name just moments later, calling her diplomatic counterpart “Vice Premier Hu,” according to The New York Post.

Yellen bowed at least three times while Lifeng backed away slightly to provide President Joe Biden’s top economy official more space to bow, according to the Post. Yellen is the latest Biden administration official to visit China in an effort to soothe escalating tensions between the two world powers.

“Never, ever, ever,” Bradley Blakeman, a former senior staff member in George W. Bush’s administration, said to the Post of Yellen’s gestures. “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.” (RELATED: US Embassy Choir Sang ‘Soulful’ Rendition Of Chinese National Anthem At Fourth Of July Event In Beijing)

“Bowing is not part of the accepted protocol,” Jerome Cohen, an emeritus professor at New York University and expert in Chinese law and government, said


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KEYWORDS: chinavisit; yellen
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1 posted on 07/08/2023 5:43:15 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
We sent Baby Huey to China:


2 posted on 07/08/2023 5:44:39 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1 ( )
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Or a fat penguin.


3 posted on 07/08/2023 5:46:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Maybe she wants some of that China money too.


4 posted on 07/08/2023 5:50:10 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
To borrow a phrase from Saddam Hussein: “she's an old, stupid, gray haired woman.”
5 posted on 07/08/2023 5:51:01 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
I picked up on the bowing immediately and mumbled the all too familiar words to myself . . "These assholes are an embarrassment" . . .

Which I didn't apologize for because I mumbled the words to myself . . . no one else knows.

6 posted on 07/08/2023 5:51:11 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Fart proudly, for you are an American.
--Benjamin Franklin--

I'd be renowned in diplomatic circles.

7 posted on 07/08/2023 5:51:59 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
And she's such a head turner...


8 posted on 07/08/2023 5:52:29 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Deja vu:


9 posted on 07/08/2023 5:52:52 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

She’s not supposed to bow.
I bet she knew that.
She was sending a message: we acknowledge your status as our overlords.


10 posted on 07/08/2023 5:52:59 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Dumpy, frumpy...eeeeuw!


11 posted on 07/08/2023 5:54:51 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I have no doubt it took him a second to assess if it was a female or a male.


12 posted on 07/08/2023 5:56:15 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1 ( )
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Yellen watched the “manners when in Japan” by mistake.

And in any case, they all look alike in China, she didn’t know Hu he was.


13 posted on 07/08/2023 5:57:23 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

When did the Chinese start dressing better than us? I remember when Nixon visited China, they all wore the same stupid Mao jackets and looked shorter, dorkier and inferior compared to the tall, handsome American dignitaries.


14 posted on 07/08/2023 6:09:45 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
First, Yellen bowed multiple times to China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng, who did not reciprocate the gesture, according to footage of the event.

My wife is Chinese-American. The only bowing we do is for funerals and cemeteries to honor the dead. Bow three times. For dead people.

15 posted on 07/08/2023 6:14:05 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Video here
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen commits ‘embarrassing’ bow during Beijing
https://rumble.com/v2yx964-us-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-commits-embarrassing-bow-during-beijing.html


16 posted on 07/08/2023 6:17:32 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Certainly she received a protocol briefing before leaving for China…


17 posted on 07/08/2023 6:35:53 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

She is a perfect fit for the inept Biden Administration.


18 posted on 07/08/2023 6:51:59 PM PDT by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

“Hu’s on first.”

“No, He’s on first.”

“What about Yu?”

“I’m on second.”


19 posted on 07/08/2023 7:03:29 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: janetjanet998

Yellen: Somebody step on a duck?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZboxi7v-o


20 posted on 07/08/2023 9:35:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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