Posted on 06/05/2013 11:10:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
China's hopes that their first lady would dazzle the American public during this week’s summit between her husband, Xi Jinping, and Barack Obama have been dashed after it was announced that Michelle Obama would not attend.
Communist Party bosses had seen the June 7-8 Sunnylands summit as a golden opportunity to deploy Peng Liyuan’s much-vaunted charms on the world stage in a bid to spin a more favourable image of China’s leaders.
But on Tuesday Mrs Obama’s office told the New York Times the first lady would remain in Washington with her daughters who are coming to the end of their academic year.
Mrs Obama’s absence is likely to limit her Chinese counterpart’s role at the two-day California meeting, which begins on Friday, and may be interpreted as a snub, analysts said.
Zhang Ming, a political scientist from China’s Renmin University, predicted Mrs Obama’s absence would “not go down very well” in Beijing.
“First lady diplomacy is also very important and the US side has failed to cooperate,” he said. “According to normal diplomatic etiquette this is very strange. It shouldn’t be like this.”
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Probably Michelle doesn’t want pictures with China’s 1st lady as she is beautiful and would make Michelle look bad.
Moooochelle and Jarret run this White House...at least they are in most contact with Soros. Barry...not so much. He reads teleprompters. When he can.
Competition. Moochelle is old news now.
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9960421/The-rise-and-rise-of-Chinas-first-lady.html
If she can't be the main attraction, she ain't interested!
Or maybe (as I read earlier) she is just somewhere drying out!
They don’t make commies the way they used to.
Doesn’t take much. MO is a bow wow.
On the other hand if the snub was intentional then I’m not overly upset about it. I don’t care to be ‘dazzled’ by Peng Liyuan’s ‘much-vaunted charms’.
Maybe she just doesn’t want to be a brownnoser like Nixon.
She likes Chinese less than whitey??
I never thought I’d like to see that day FR was pro-communist and anti-American.
Looks like Joan Rivers after her latest face-lift.
A communist would have a difficult time choosing between Michelle and the Chinese lady.
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