'Never, ever, ever…an American official
does not bow': Treasury Secretary Janet
Yellen is slammed for BOWING multiple
times to China's vice-premier and giving
Beijing 'optics that they love'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Harriet Alexander
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/9/2023 10:33:15 AM
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was slammed for bowing multiple times when she met with China's vice premier He Lifeng, as some critics say the protocol error is a sign of American weakness.
Yellen, who served as chair of the Federal Reserve before becoming Joe Biden's top financial official, wrapped up her first visit to China as treasury secretary on Sunday.
Moments after bowing at least three times, Yellen then stumbled over He's name, calling him 'Vice Premier Hu.' Both Washington and Beijing said the meetings during her four-day trip were fruitful, although the visit - designed to help smooth a rocky relationship - did not generate any concrete agreements.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/9/2023 10:37:37 AM (No. 1509089)
Move your shoes, gonna hurl.
17 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/9/2023 10:39:23 AM (No. 1509091)
Obama-ites bow to the world at the expense of the USA. It's their only function. Destroy America. Now we should destroy them.
40 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 7/9/2023 10:41:46 AM (No. 1509092)
Janet.......January 01, 2021.......
"WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s choice for Treasury secretary, Janet L. Yellen, collected more than $7 million in speaking fees over the past two years from major corporations and Wall Street banks that have a keen interest in the financial policies she will oversee after her expected confirmation to lead the Treasury Department."
30 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/9/2023 10:43:16 AM (No. 1509093)
Bowing to her Communist Master, pure and simple!
47 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
marbles 7/9/2023 10:44:23 AM (No. 1509094)
They always bow to their owners.
33 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/9/2023 10:44:39 AM (No. 1509095)
I guess she could have done what the US now does in private. Kiss his butt. Either way it is wrong and a major no no. We DO NOT bow to any world leader. Especially a communist. But then again Yellen is another misplaced box checker in an important position. When she speaks it tells us all we need to know about her qualifications.
37 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/9/2023 10:49:46 AM (No. 1509099)
There is precedent. The Biden/Blinken crowd turns around, bends over and grabs their ankles.
21 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 7/9/2023 11:09:19 AM (No. 1509118)
Yellen knows which side of the bread the Yuan is spread. She bowed before her master(s). Bought and paid for Janet.
19 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
pixelero 7/9/2023 11:14:34 AM (No. 1509121)
The Democrats are an endless clown show in their desire to find equity, equality, the leveling of all cultures to the same stupid norms, they just stumble all over themselves, trying to signal their virtue, and always end up looking like fools.
The complexities of the depth, timing, and character of bowing in the East, besides the pathetic kowtowing it implies on our part, are simply too much for us Westerners to manage. Such obeisance is an art form, practiced perfectly only by them.
Stick to our own cultural norms. Shake hands, make eye contact, be polite and decent. But of course that’s all a bridge too far for today’s Democrats. What a bunch of idiots.
24 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/9/2023 11:39:57 AM (No. 1509143)
Bowing is antithetical to being American.
I don't BOW to my boss and since I am the boss I would fire any employee who bowed to me (after a gentle warning).
This country was founded on the act of NOT bowing to a KING.
Obama was the first president to do so. Biden will bow for his 10%, the disgusting old fool.
31 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/9/2023 11:43:27 AM (No. 1509149)
Can you see Harry Truman, Ron Reagan, or Don Trump repeatedly bowing to a Communist Chinese politician like Janet Yellen just did?
27 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Namma 7/9/2023 11:45:26 AM (No. 1509150)
Well, the headline is kind of correct. An AMERICAN official never bows. Also, ya think a women would curtsy instead of bow.
14 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
coyote 7/9/2023 11:51:25 AM (No. 1509152)
What a silly goose.
14 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 7/9/2023 12:25:40 PM (No. 1509166)
The Big Guy gets his share, and the Big Gal gets her share.
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
cold porridge 7/9/2023 12:33:42 PM (No. 1509168)
I've seen enough of her testifying before congress to know that she is as dumb as Kamala. The person that chose her to go to China must be just as dumb.
18 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/9/2023 12:41:28 PM (No. 1509171)
Why not just have a crab for the position? That’s what she looks like and her talent for walking sideways is a match.
7 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/9/2023 1:25:25 PM (No. 1509190)
Get this straight - - she wasn't BOWING!
She was just being polite to her hosts - - by doing the Chinese folk dance Gua Gai Feng Xuan - - which translates roughly as The Rooster & The Hen.
Though it's tough to tell - - given her physique - - which part she was dancing.
4 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
LadyVet 7/9/2023 1:28:41 PM (No. 1509192)
This is what a diversity mindset will get you. Isn't bowing a Japanese custom, not so much a Chinese one. I guess to a DEI dilettante, one Asian face looks like another. /s
Just visually, can the USA find a weaker looking representative to send to this particular place? Female. Old and approaching senility. Barely mobile. Fat and sedentary. But maybe they won't notice if we dress it up as a man.
7 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Msquared112 7/9/2023 1:57:32 PM (No. 1509207)
What strange crippling virus infects lefties like Yellen and Obama to bow to foreign leaders? You will never catch a conservative leader doing that. Not one who knows American history, anyway.
7 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 7/9/2023 2:09:25 PM (No. 1509223)
She's a total fool, too.
7 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/9/2023 2:40:19 PM (No. 1509246)
The woman is 76 years old, and probably as senile as Joe Biden.
I wouldn't trust her to balance a checkbook much less the Treasury of the United States.
8 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/9/2023 7:04:08 PM (No. 1509367)
An American official? Hell, no American should ever bow to anyone and especially to foreigners.
5 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
danu 7/9/2023 9:38:21 PM (No. 1509446)
unspeakable.
2 people like this.
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