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On 7/8/23 4:59 PM, pothead wrote:
On 2023-07-08, Paul Ragna <[email protected]> wrote:
Will someone please remove this incompetent old fart from office?
The Chinese are laughing their collective asses off at the west.
<https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4166495/posts>
"US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen commits embarrassing bow during
Beijing visit: Never, ever, ever"
"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 administrations 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 Jinpings 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.
Bushs White House, told The Post. An American official does not bow. It >> looks like shes been summoned to the principals office, and thats
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 Hes 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 dont 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."
The only thing the Chinese respect is strength. That is why they didn't pull any shenanigans when
Trump was POTUS.
Trump doesn't back down and they could not read him. They see Trump as strong and unpredictable.
They see the Biden administration as weak and bought and paid for.
Biden will have us in WW3 pretty soon and because he's given a good portion of our weapons away and
drained the strategic oil supply we will be in serious trouble.
In China, the ones who bow are the supplicants, the inferiors,
the servants and serfs.
Yellen either got VERY bad advice, wouldn't follow good
advice or considers the USA (which she was representing)
as an inferior.
AND ... she may be RIGHT, if even subconsciously. The
USA out-sourced SO much vital industry, borrowed SO
much money, that, well ... China DOES kinda own us.
If they cut us off for three months we'd be screwed
and everything would grind to a halt.
This isn't just Biden's fault ... it goes way back
to Nixon/Ford times. Since then no US leader has
dared rock the boat. Even Trump didn't do very much
to repatriate our more vital industries. Labor unions
and regulatory agencies had kinda ruined the USA for
many kinds of industry - China would always be able
to do it cheaper. Slave labor ? Totalitarianism ? Who
cares so long as we don't SEE it ....
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