Optics in diplomacy: Compare staged Blinken-Xi group meeting w Pompeo’s 2018 meeting. Blinken's “stabilized relations” sheepishly echoes Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 “peace in our time” - Galt's Gulch

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Optics in diplomacy: Compare staged Blinken-Xi group meeting w Pompeo’s 2018 meeting. Blinken's “stabilized relations” sheepishly echoes Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 “peace in our time”

Posted by bubah1mau 1 year, 6 months ago to Politics

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Posted by mhubb 1 year, 6 months ago

this is how you treat a nation when you plan a war....

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  Posted by bubah1mau 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Or plan to turn your back while an aggressor nation goes on aggressing.
  
  Even Europeans, last night on BBC, were amazed that Blinken took his "supplicant" seat at Xi's big-boss table. Those optics weren't missed by a dozen Asian nations looking to the US for defense against Xi's PRC, and Xi's exclusive claim to the entire South China Sea. Negotiate from a self-declared state of inferiority and see how far that gets you with a tyrant.
  
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    Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 6 months ago
    
    I'm sure that Putin was impressed, too.
    I can imagine the riotous laughing.
    
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Posted by bubah1mau 1 year, 6 months ago

Trump 2018: Pompeo positioned as having equal stature in group meeting with Xi
https://america.cgtn.com/2018/06/14/u...
Biden 2023: Blinken positioned as insignificant supplicant to the boss in Monday’s group meeting with Xi
https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/blinken...

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