Last night, U.S. President Barack Obama hosted a state dinner for the President of China, Hu Jintao, complete with full news media coverage and photos.
Last February, U.S. President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama for a brief chat, without news media coverage, after which the Dalai Lama was escorted out a back door to minimize publicity and China’s annoyance.
The winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize honored one of the… jailers… of the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, but was unwilling to publicly honor the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for fear giving offense to the jailer.
I am not the only one who thinks something just isn’t right with this picture.
No shit. But China owns half the U.S. national debt. It’s dumb to be rude to your banker even if he’s a tyrant, or a thief.