Know Your Place...

President Good Time Charlie lands in China and is greeted less than enthusiastically. Remind me again why America is so submissive to China in trade and human rights issues?*

By MARK LANDLER
SEPT. 3, 2016

HANGZHOU, China — White House officials expect sharp words and the occasional elbow when an American president travels to China. But the reception that President Obama and his staff got when they arrived here Saturday afternoon was bruising, even by Chinese standards.

When Air Force One rolled to a stop, there was no staircase for Mr. Obama to disembark in view of the television cameras. Instead, he emerged from a rarely used door in the belly of the plane. It did not matter, since the reporters who normally cover the president’s movements were kept behind a rope under a wing, where they could not see him, prompting an angry exchange between a security official and White House aides.

When Susan E. Rice, the national security adviser, ducked under the rope, she was immediately stopped by a Chinese official, who heatedly challenged her. Asked later by a reporter what had happened, a diplomatic Ms. Rice said, “They did things that weren’t anticipated.”

He Who Accepts Insults
Too Will Accept Injury.
~Chinese Fortune cookie.

Let's just requote diplomatic Ms. Rice here, she of the Libya coup campaign...

“They did things that weren’t anticipated.”

Will we continue to be caught off guard by our enemies, or will we get competitive under a non-lame duck President? #ObamaOut, so why are we funding his vacation plans instead of leaving foreign policy strategy to the next president, one who still has his head in the game?
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* Do they own all our asses already?