[balls]

This is what it has come to.

[Vaduz]

Obama has faild now the long wait for his term to end going to be a lot of blood lost.

[pepsionice]

Timmy just isn’t believable...not in China...not in the US.

[Wissa]

The Obama administration's hope is that the Chicom leaders are as stupid as Obama voters. Not likely.

The Chinese students were laughing, but I'll bet the Chicom leaders aren't.

[Safrguns]

Anyone have video of the laughter?

[dfwgator]

The Chinese aren’t stupid.

[mgc1122]

And I’m sure the joke was lost on the tax cheat ...

[Cheetahcat]

The whole administration is nothing but a Damm farce how would they instill confidence? Plus we stopped doing that in 88.

[TurtleUp]

"Chinese assets are very safe," Geithner said in response to a question after a speech at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s. His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience

I would have laughed too. "Your money is safe around obama" is as absurd as "your daughter is safe around Bill Clinton". If the Chinese are sensible, and I hope they are, they will dump American dollars and refuse to hold our currency or buy our bonds. It will hurt our country, but not as much as giving obama free access to more funding would hurt us.

[OB1kNOb]

[kaylar]

According to what I’ve read (NOT confirmable by my own personal experiences) being laughed at in public by Asians is equivalent to having things thrown at you by westerners. They consider public mockery far more insulting than we do (not that we enjoy it, but anyway...). The books and articles I read which make this claim are mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, so perhaps that’s changed with “globalization”...maybe some FReepers living in Asian countries can confirm/deny...But if this is true, this incident is far more serious than the article’s writer is aware (or letting on).

[colorado tanker]

Oh, they'll keep buying our bonds. Wait until they see the off the charts stupid interest rates Timmy and Zero will be paying to raise all the money they need to pay for their spending.

You and I will pay for that as we see our money devalued from the inflation that will result.

[Glenn]

How humiliating.

[Army Air Corps]

They know that we have a band of half-wits in the White House. They know better than 52% of American voters.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Chinese students laugh at Geithner's assurances (about Dollar)

Meanwhile the vllage idiots - aka members of Congress, believe every word he says.

[Red Dog #1]

Men of vision would be encouraging China to spend the money on American goods and service to improve their country’s lot.

[gaijin]

So Geithner violated American standards of trustworthiness, and also violated Chinese standards of trustworthiness.

Do you know how HARD that is? Everything is counterfeit, there is no accountability, and AVERAGE lies probably do not amuse rank-and-file Chinese.

He has become an uncommon liar IN CHINA.

[PGR88]

One thing to remember - Chinese in no way have bought into, or even understand, American political-correctness or political double-speak. So in that sense, they see things very clearly and simply - will their country get their money back?

[T Minus Four]

I assure you, our dollar is strong!

[4rcane]

I believe in getting an A+ in my exam and being healthy, but I’m not going to study or exercise

[irishjuggler]

where he studied Chinese as a student

Where does Reuters find its writers? "Studied Chinese as a student?" That's a bit like "butchered meat as a butcher."