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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I’ll take the one on the left.
“She likes Chinese less than whitey??”
And Chinese like whitey only somewhat, but blacks not at all. Same all over Asia.
And, while we’re at it:
Chinese are respected by most, but liked by very few throughout Asia;
Chinese look down on all others;
Japanese hate all, but at least respect Chinese begrudgingly at times.
Everyone looks down on Filipinos;
And, if I remember correctly all the fine points from my days there:
Thais will only respect a Thai or Burmese monk;
Burmese will merely tolerate a Thai monk, but none others except a Burmese monk;
Cambodians will respect a Thai monk, but not a Vietnamese monk;
Vietnamese begrudgingly respect a Thai monk, but not a Cambodian monk;
Tibetan monasteries used to employ standing armies.
FWIW
As much as I hate 0dumb0 and his golf outings & frequent jaunts away from the WH, I have to admit, he tries to avoid being in the same room as phat_Ass Mooochelle, and who can blame him!
Reggie?
When Bush was in power the Liberals would root for the enemy to kill our troops and then masturbated every time a soldier was killed because they hoped it made Bush look bad
Now Obama is power we Conservatives laugh when Obama & his Wookie gets punked by foreign leaders.
Politics used to stop at the ocean, as we might have had our difference but in the end we are all Americans
That no longer applies and that is sad.
We should separate.
Make it a fund raiser and Michelle would come. She never misses one of those.
“...and would make Michelle look bad.”
Ha, make Mooseshell look bad? Mooseshell needs no help to look bad.
Probably because she wouldn’t play HORSE with Michelle.
LOL. What an idiotic statement.
Without a doubt, the despot in the White House is a greater threat to our Liberties than the current communist leader.
If you can't see that reality, you should go to the DUmp and be with your comrades.
That’s ok. While Barry’s gone, her special secret service guy will protect her from the hecklers.
I have been here since the 90s and every single day I learn something new-
—today’s tidbit I gleaned from this article: there is a Chinese Vogue magazine...who knew?
I love this place :)
You are right. Sadly, you may get flack for this post.
Why not? She's married to a despot RAT bastard commie muzzzlim pig-in-chief Odumb0!
I would take either Russia's Putin or China's Xi Peng in a heart beat over our faux pres__ent. At least ther're not Muzzlim like 0dumb0 is, who wants to kill all white people & infidels.
Looks like she is singing the national anthem at a red sox game.
Well, the question wasn’t who is a greater threat to out liberties. The fact that you dislike Obama so you want our country to be ruled by another country is sad. If President Obama tomorrow said the Constitution was perfect, you’d be against the Constitution, just to spite him? Sorry, you allowing him to decided your values makes you more like those at DU than WinOne4TheGipper is. My values and beliefs existed a long time before I ever heard of Obama, and they will be around along time after he’s retired.
Fridays are out for Moochelle. She’s got to attend Jumah services.
LOL...you forgot the /sarc tag.
I just don’t see that.
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