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During her recent visit to Beijing on Saturday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen experienced several lapses in diplomatic protocol that critics have interpreted as a reflection of American softness on the international stage.
On her second day of a four-day mission to repair strained ties with a formidable global competitor, Yellen was seen bending at the waist at least three times while greeting Vice Premier He Lifeng, according to video footage.
On the other side, He, who is an influential figure in Xi Jinping’s economic circle, remained upright, taking a step back to accommodate Yellen’s misplaced courtesies.
Bradley Blakeman, who served as a senior staffer in George W. Bush’s White House, was direct in his critique.
He said to 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.”
Jerome A. Cohen, an emeritus professor at NYU and a scholar of Chinese law and government, concurred, “Bowing is not part of the accepted protocol.”
Compounding the perceived errors, Yellen, 76, mispronounced He’s name during the initial session of the American officials’ meeting with the economic head honcho, referring to him erroneously as “Vice Premier Hu.”
In her opening remarks, Yellen stated, “I strongly believe that the relationship between our two countries is rooted in the solid ties between the American and Chinese people. It is important that we keep nurturing and deepening these ties.”
During her Beijing visit, Yellen advocated for China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, to roll back its greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to mitigate climate change. “We have a duty to both our own countries and to other countries to cooperate” on environmental issues, she asserted.
Yellen also made an appeal for the establishment of a “healthy economic competition that is not winner-take-all.”
She proclaimed, “Where we have concerns about specific economic practices, we should and will communicate them directly.”Ironically, just days before Yellen’s arrival, China declared new export restrictions on gallium and germanium, metals that are essential for semiconductor production, claiming the necessity to “safeguard national security and interests.”
This action was broadly interpreted as a countermove against American restrictions on Chinese tech.
Furthermore, shortly after Yellen’s arrival in Beijing, China escalated tensions with Taiwan, sending 13 People’s Liberation Army aircraft and six vessels into the airspace and waters surrounding the sovereign island democracy, which the CCP views as part of its territory.
Bradley Blakeman voiced his critique, “The way to treat an adversary is, you don’t go hat in hand. But with this administration, time and time again, we embarrass ourselves and show weakness. And it just shows the lack of...
Dr. Gal Luft exposed the massive alleged corruption of Joe Biden and his family, including Hunter, in an explosive video statement he provided to the New York Post.
The “missing” witness in the Biden corruption case says that the Biden family received payments from the Chinese Communist Party and had him arrested to stop him from testifying in front of the US House of Representatives, in an explosive video statement published by the New York Post.
Dr. Gal Luft, an Israeli national and the “missing” witness in the Biden family corruption case detailed massive international corruption that ensnares not just Joe and Hunter Biden, but Joe’s brother Jim, in the roughly 14-minute-long video statement that he released exclusively to the New York Post.
At the core of Luft’s allegations against the Biden family is his claim that after Joe Biden’s time as Vice President, he attended a meeting at Washington, DC’s Four Seasons Hotel, with Hunter in tow. The meeting was with Chinese officials from CEFC China Energy and Luft says that this meeting is confirmed by information found in Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell.”
Dr. Luft says that CEFC China Energy was paying Hunter Biden a whopping $100,000 a month and that his Uncle Jim Biden, Joe’s brother who has figured prominently in the family’s alleged corruption schemes, was receiving payments of $65,000.
The payments were compensation to the Bidens for promoting China’s Belt and Road Initiative for CCP economic dominance, a scheme that National File has reported on in the past.
According to Dr. Luft, in 2019, when Joe Biden was running for President of the United States, Luft provided information to six FBI and DOJ officials during a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, but alleges that his testimony was covered up and a campaign to silence him was launched shortly thereafter. Related: Key Witness in Biden-Burisma Bribery Scheme Found Dead
Dr. Luft was arrested in Cyprus and charged with being an international arms dealer, a charge that he says was fabricated in order to stop him from testifying before Congress in the United States and revealing the extent of the Biden family’s corruption as it relates to influence peddling, the Chinese Communist Party, and their front groups, like CEFC China Energy.
Watch Dr. Luft’s Video Statement Below:
The accusation from Dr. Luft that Biden family cronies within the FBI and DOJ covered up the evidence he provided to them jives with recently-surfaced recordings of Joe Biden himself talking to Petro Poroshenko, the former President of Ukraine. In that instance, Biden assured Poroshenko that...