China and Its President Greeted by a Host of Indignities

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042001946.html

Chinese President Hu Jintao got almost everything he wanted out of yesterday's visit to the White House.

He got the 21-gun salute, the review of the troops and the Colonial fife-and-drum corps. He got the exchange of toasts and a meal of wild-caught Alaskan halibut with mushroom essence, $50 chardonnay and live bluegrass music. And he got an Oval Office photo op with President Bush, who nodded and smiled as if he understood Chinese while Hu spoke.

If only the White House hadn't given press credentials to a Falun Gong activist who five years ago heckled Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin, in Malta. Sure enough, 90 seconds into Hu's speech on the South Lawn, the woman started shrieking, "President Hu, your days are numbered!" and "President Bush, stop him from killing!"

Bush and Hu looked up, stunned. It took so long to silence her -- a full three minutes -- that Bush aides began to wonder if the Secret Service's strategy was to let her scream herself hoarse. The rattled Chinese president haltingly attempted to continue his speech and television coverage went to split screen.

"You're okay," Bush gently reassured Hu.

But he wasn't okay, not really.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Bush might as well have nuke China

The article is one badass at dipolmacy.
All I can say is that
Why bring pain on yourself

[NNN0LHI]

2. I'll be watching very close to see what happens if Bush visits China again

That could get real interesting.

And I bet our US media will not report on what happens.

Don

[Oversea Visitor]

6. Applying the concept of

Sun Tzu "Art of War"
bush just make a friend into an enemies
one that has the capacity to bring US to a full stop economicaly

Just a whisper of no confidence in US dollars and they taking step
will cause a huge panic on the market

They wont be inviting bush over
No sir
They be telling your business leader he is bad leader
and he should be remove
Want to bet what your business leader going to do?

[bluestateguy]

3. Oh No! The communist dictator of China had his feelings hurt!

How will I sleep tonight?

[NNN0LHI]

5. No his feeling were not hurt. He and his country were insulted

There is a big difference between the two.

Don

[Oversea Visitor]

9. Peacefully

Nothing about feeling being hurt
All about good manner
and intentional insult

It is very plain what kind of relationship US wants with China
I think the SLOW GRIND will satrt after this

[Renew Deal]

13. I was thinking about that relationship thing.

What does this tell the Chinese? To me it says that they are not worthy of a state visit. We don't value our relationship.

It's just terrible. You don't treat your guests like that.

[SoCalDem]

28. You don't treat your "loan officers" that way

We owe them a TON of money..

[Renew Deal]

11. His feelings are the least of it.

Forget how they feel. We acted terribly. I wouldn't want our people treated like that. Why not a state visit? What's the deal with that?

[Yollam]

4. It bothers me how the media portray this as "embarrassing"

Like as if our "leaders" should be in some bubble where they never, ever, ever have to hear what regular people have to say. I'm glad the woman got in and said her peace.

I want LESS security around these people, not more. If it puts them at some risk, so be it. The people are entitled to access to these thugs.

[Oversea Visitor]

7. The woman protester is nothing

It is all the other action

[Yollam]

8. Well, POS Bush acted like an ass, that's for sure.

My jaw dropped when he GRABBED the guy's arm and pulled him the other way, then gave him a patronizing pat on the back. POS Bush has no idea of how to treat dignitaries with respect.

[Oversea Visitor]

12. That can be treated

as non intentional
But when one looks at all the action combine
Somehow is just shout out "Diplomatic nuclear disaster"
But since bush is CIC he wont know how to handle it from here
So shits happen

[Renew Deal]

10. The entire episode was embarrassing.

It was a mess. Why wouldn't they give them an state visit? What's the deal with that? You should respect your guests even if you don't agree on anything. Otherwise don't invite them. This is terrible.

[Oversea Visitor]

14. Why invite them ?

Good question. Maybe bush want to show them who boss x(

That will be dumb its like inviting a hungry tiger into a room and locking you self in with it.Then pour all that nice yummy sauce over yourself and start bitch slapping the tiger.

How stupid can one get x(

[NNN0LHI]

15. Bush's brilliant plan consisted of saying "Iran nukes" as many time as...

...as he could get away with while standing next to Hu. That was my take on the entire fiasco. We are going to pay for this ignorance by Bush and his minions in spades.

Don

[Bill McBlueState]

38. ha!

That's a hilarious analogy. "Pour all that nice yummy sauce over yourself and start bitch slapping the tiger."

:rofl:

[rumpel]

16. It was the village idiot in action, today.

Sadly though, a powerdrunk group of infantile people, may have fooled some in this country, diplomacy is conducted in a very grown-up world.

Every action has a reaction.

How much longer are we going to let these pedomorphs run this country?

[Oversea Visitor]

17. No much longer

The business people in US has a business to do
And this stupidity hurts them like hell
Bush is over. PERIOD

[loudsue]

19. Thank you, Oversea Visitor.....

I respect your opinion on this, and I'm sure there will be consequences for the US over this.

I'm only sorry that the consequences will fall on those who dislike our president, instead of falling ON the president. He and his family have so much money, AND A GREAT DEAL OF IT INVESTED IN CHINA, that they will not suffer. Only the American people will suffer.

But that's what happens when we allow corporations to steal our elections, and put crazy people in the office of the president. I'm afraid we're all going to feel the pain of NOT having a revolution the minute we knew the election had been stolen.

:kick::kick::kick:

[NNN0LHI]

20. Hi loudsue. Good to see you

I always liked your screen name. My wifes name is Sue. See you later.

Don

[loudsue]

25. Hi Don!

I've been workin' my hiney off lately, and only sneak-a-peek at DU in the wee hours.

I've been keeping tabs on you though! You're one of fave old-timers here! :hug:

Say hi to Sue! :hi:

:kick::kick::kick:

[Oversea Visitor]

21. That is the thing

this hurt them big if China decide to slap back
nah me think bush get ear full right at this moment

[libhill]

34. A revolution today

would be a massacre. It's not minute men vs. redcoats, both sides equally armed - it's the people against an out of control Federal Establishment that's armed to the teeth. Fat chance of success.

[Dunvegan]

18. What Oversea Visitor said...

...we just locked ourselves in with a tiger, poured "tasty sauce" on ourselves, and started poking the kitty with a very pointy and very short stick.

If that cat thanks us by dumping a couple "brazillion" USD on the international market in favor of Euros, Pesos, and ANYTHING BUT US DOLLARS we'll have "George of the Jungle" to thank.

This was a diplomatic disaster of the highest import.

Diplomacy requires a panoply of nuanced and evolved qualities and discliplines...all of which the entirety of the Bush Administration (most especially Bush himself) utterly lack.

[Hekate]

31. Bush's specialty is stirring up wasp's nests, isn't it?

[Neil Lisst]

22. either it was an inexcusable screw up or something Bush let happen

I favor the latter. Three minutes to get to her and shut her up? Credentials in the first place?

Bush will pay for this in Chinese monetary policy.

[NNN0LHI]

23. Hu declined Bush's invitation to stay at the ranch

That may have got the whole ball rolling?

Don

[Neil Lisst]

24. Bush refused to give Hu a state visit, which is what got it started.

[Dunvegan]

26. Cindy Sheehan didn't get to stay three minutes into the SOTU address...

...for a number on a t-shirt.

The woman who protested aloud regarding Falun Gong must have been allowed to do so.

Since George likes sticking vocal Christianity sects to sectarian governments, I can see the whole thing being "let her protest on purpose."

That, and George is hyper-sensitive about avoiding at all costs even having to see even one anti-Administration protester for his entire stint in office. If George had wanted to keep the lid on protests, the jar would have been sealed air-tight.

[Neil Lisst]

27. I agree. It was a LIHOP!!

They let her go THREE minutes.

this and the diss on the anthem?

[Binka]

29. Yes She Was Allowed In And Hu Knew It

This woman was arrested in Malta a few years back for yelling the same shit at Hu's predecessor. There is NO FUCKING WAY that she wasn't known to WH security. They let her go off on Hu for 3 minutes. The entire world watched as a petulant belligerent Bush embarrassed and bullied his fucking BANKER! Bush wants to bomb Iran to hold China at bay as a growing power and threat to US economic interest.

Kids I think we just witnessed Arch Duke Ferdinand get assassinated. Hang on.

[Hekate]

32. Arch Duke Ferdinand, you say? >gulp< That's a name to conjur with.

:scared:

Hekate

[Dunvegan]

36. You've nailed it, Binka.

[libhill]

35. I'll bet if she had been wearing an anti - Bush / anti - war

t-shirt, they'd have hustled her ass out of there in 3 seconds.

[Hekate]

30. Damn. Is the *hole-in-Chief trying to turn EVERYONE against us?

You don't have to be a fan of the policies of a nation or of its leader, but only a boor insults a guest, and that's what Bush did to Hu, over and over and over. :blush:

The question is: why?

:wtf: was Bush trying to accomplish with this asinine behavior? One thing might have been an accident, two things might have been clumsiness -- but all of this put together is a deliberate insult. To a country that is holding an inordinate amount of our debt. To a culture that is very touchy about "face."

God, would You please make * go away? Please? :banghead:

Hekate

[Oversea Visitor]

33. All I can say bush hot for Iran

just screw US China relationship.

You cannot talk to a guy who is thinking with his dick.

[Dunvegan]

37. Well, Oversea Visitor...it's not "romance" on Bush's "mind"...

...if he's thinking of Iran with his little nether "Cheney", he's thinking "rape."

[Ms. Clio]

39. YSR, they obsessively screen "town hall meetings"

but somehow "just happen" to let a known disrupter slip in?

That's bullshit, and I'm sure the Chinese know it, too.