The Eagle Groveling Before the Dragon?
Perhaps it’s necessary, perhaps it’s not, but is it really appropriate to beg China to buy American debt, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did on Sunday, in public?
But perhaps this is inspired diplomacy; after all, China has been nursing the resentments of about 150 years of history of humiliation following the apex of the Qing Dynasty, marked by its arrogance, exemplified by its insistence that Western diplomats kowtow before the Dragon Throne. Perhaps giving China a faux sense of superiority may assuage its frustrations. Certainly there would be no surprise if the state media spun it as a return to the heyday of Chinese power. Perhaps such smugness will slow down China’s haste to increase its defense spending.
Besides, I’m sure it more than makes up for remarks her husband made in 1992 about the “butchers of Beijing”.
I guess it’s not just evil conservatives who cynically sell out human rights for national interests.
