This is the funniest thing in months. Take the time to enjoy and laugh folks… Really, take the time.
French President Emmanuel Macron is in Beijing for an official state visit and his geopolitical priority is to break, or at least weaken, the China-Russia alliance. Yes, the western alliance sent diminutive Macron for this task. That is funny enough… but what comes next is buckets funnier.
In order to give power to their position, the brilliant NATO minds decided that President Macron should take European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as a way to express the united ‘western alliance’ message that Macron was intended to leverage in his efforts. Obviously cunning Panda knew the intent, and the way China literally diminished the effort is not only funny in diplomatic action, but also in the optics they present. LOOK:
Upon arrival in Beijing, and customary with keeping good panda face, Macron “was given the full red-carpet treatment this week in Beijing, fêted at a state banquet, and greeted by military parades and firing cannons on Tiananmen Square. When Macron’s plane touched down, China’s foreign minister personally welcomed him.” However, “when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived, she got the ecology minister — at the regular passenger exit.” [link]
Big Panda is subtle like a brick through a window. lolol.
(Politico) – […] While Macron’s schedule was overflowing, von der Leyen’s was bare-bones. While Macron was attending a lavish state banquet Thursday night with Chinese President Xi Jinping, von der Leyen was giving a sober press conference at the EU delegation’s own headquarters. While state media trumpeted the Sino-French relationship, Chinese social media demonized von der Leyen as an American puppet.
The distinction illustrates the difficulties Europe is having in dealing with China. The EU’s 27 members have an array of opinions about how to approach China — and Beijing knows this. And in the case of Macron and von der Leyen, Beijing sees a greater chance to make headway with the French leader, rendering the EU executive to a somewhat subordinate position.
The strategy was on full display Thursday, as Xi descended the outsized steps of the Great Hall of the People to greet the French president with smiles and a handshake. Below a line of flapping red flags, the two leaders exchanged greetings with a gathering that included some of Macron’s advisers.
Not present: von der Leyen. She would join later for the meetings, walking up the Great Hall stairs in solitude. (read more)
The only world leader who was/is able to diminute Chairman Xi Jinping, was U.S. President Donald Trump.
This entire effort by Macron and Von der Leyen is an exhibition in painful and slow-moving Panda humiliation. Even Politico had to note the cringe factor that surrounds the diplomatic undressing.
Even if you don’t like Big Panda, and obviously we do not, you still have to give them credit. It really is funny.
It would have been even better if Little Jake Sullivan and Little Tony Blinken were there!! 🤣😂🤣😂👊👊
Meanwhile the protestors in France set Macron’s favorite restaurant on fire. 😆
Not a fan of the Chinese but give credit where it is due … this is LOL hilarious.
The Chinks should have sprung for some binoculars for the two nitwits so they could at least see each other. More clown show.
I hope the President of the EU enjoyed her tour of the aquarium, the children’s choir, and the history museum luncheon.
The EU is pathetic.
Got to agree with you there. How are the mighty fallen.
What? Was the EU ever “mighty”? They were/are just a trade bloc intent on exploiting the US markets while preventing US products from entering theirs.
Crooks are obsessed with the appearance of power, but haven’t the slightest competence to justify them having any. They love to fill a lavish room with underlings and lord it over them. For these sociopaths this is the closest thing they can get to a religious experience. It must wound them no end to be treated like the piss boy form Mel Brooks’ movie. I am looking forward, in perhaps 2-3 years, to see the vermin groveling to Putin similarly. You can guess where the “Churchillian” Zelensky will be. As Rush would say, assumed room temperature.
What a debacle for the EU and France. The seating of macaroni and von der liar positions them like 2 animals in a zoo. The cage is invisible.
The cage is their empty pockets.
Good to see the “united” NATO on full display. Macron was the main NATO country leader who tried to get a peace negotiation. We all know who stopped all of those diplomatic attempts at peace. BTW, what chance in hell would a President Trump have allowed those kind of optics?
Macron in Beijing to represent Europe/West in requesting China not support Russia efforts in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, in all of France, anti-Macron protests, accusing him of undemocratic pension reforms, are being carried out for months?
Macron is not representing his own people and yet is sent to China to represent the West?
These truly are strange times.
Those protests are more than pension reforms. Although, yes, the pension reform is the core but that core also addresses secondary issues such as the Stop the Ukraine money and warfare disbursements, Stop the Green New Deal, Stop Migration, and other Stops. The French are very unhappy.
A picture is worth a thousand words, or a thousand laughs in this case.
Note the grass varieties in the center of the table. When bouquets of flowers are displayed it shows that one has respect for those they entertain. Grasses not so much.
American puppet…now that’s funny since America, through Joe Biden has become China’s puppet….
Yes, the western alliance sent diminutive Macron for this task. That is funny enough…
James Madison was 5′ 4″ and weighed 100 pounds. Macron might be a moron but what does his height have to do with it besides nothing?
Madison was 122 lbs.
https://presidenstory.com/stat_tal.php
In Macron’s case his height is fair game for ridicule. After all he is such a little man in all respects. 🙂
Ridicule is a powerful weapon and should be used whenever possible against your enemies. In fact it was Alinsky’s rule no.5.
Call me crazy, but I see nothing funny about this. Cringe worthy is a better description. I hope Macron lives to regret his actions, as he is selling out not only his own nation, but all of the West.
Yes this does need mentioning. God knows what corruption Macrom and that lady are prepared to offer Xi to have their war against Russia without interference.
An earlier post by regitiger observed “if YOU HOLD POWER..LEVERAGE..you do not travel..you INVITE. Traveling to China is weakness; it is literally the very definition of a lack of any power.. ”
It brought back that image from the November Xi-Biden meeting in Bali: Xi standing, while Biden stork-steps 20 feet to shake his hand. Xi has the measurement of the West’s weaklings.
Joey Two Scoops looked like he borrowed that stride from the Ministry of Silly Walks.
The Chinese are very clever and astute and rarely miss a trick. The optics of Macron being lavishly wined and dined by a foreign adversary while the streets of Paris erupt in riots over his policies probably have Xi and others laughing their as… off behind his back.
A predator can sense weakness, in this case it’s the West. Xi is no dummy and sees an opportunity to tip the West into the ash bin of history. The EU is the crowning jewel of the lunacy and Ursula von der Leyen is it’s selected witless queen.
While the governments in West are trying to teach their “men” to play with dolls, find there inner woman, their (China/Russia) young men are learning to field strip a weapon, hand to hand combat, survival techniques, etc.
The good news, they understand that this is all an illusion, see the wilding in the streets in France. They are also aware that like Macron, B-B-Biden and most are selected officials in the West are all frauds and do not represent the people.
Get out of the blue hives, especially in the USA you’ll find real men and strong women waiting for the opportunity to sweep the frauds away.
Xi is just playing with these two like cat with a mouse before he comes in for the kill or stay out of the way while your opponents commit suicide, at least at the selected leadership level.
As a reminder …. during the official regime of Comrade Obama, the major industrial members of the EU were shipping manufacturing know how, licenses and technical data TO CHINA INC. to manufacture stuff IN CHINA INC.
Just as many US major commercial companies … Major Commercial Businesses in the EU have major physical and financial investments located INSIDE CHINA INC., legally established under EU Law.
Oh, by the as a side note, there are more than a few FRENCH and GERMAN Companies with similar investments and partnerships with RUSSIAN entities. Some of those are for state of the art military hardware, especially electronics and sensors.
Glo “bull’ ism = Suicide pact.
The cherry on the top would’ve been for EU’s von Der Leyen to have been treated to a Chinese Cooking Class.
…the wise oriental gentleman has nearly 7000 years of practice in perfecting the art of insult. “Sit by a river long enough and you will see the corpses of all your enemies float past.” Patience is not only a virtue, in Chinese life it is a weapon.
My contempt for WEF actors like Macron, the entire traitorous and corrupt climate crisis crowd, the banksters who have destroyed even the principle of democracy for five hundred years and set back human rights indefinitely, is likely similar to the Panda’s. Panda has been writing checks to these corrupt scumbags for years. I think they find them reprehensible and this disgusting display likely colors China’s view of the entire race as corrupt groveling dirtbags.
Big table looks like a scene from Get Smart TV show for any of the older Treepers.
Alll that is needed is the Cone of Silence.
I have long advocated the opposite approach for the US. Break diplomatic relations with every member of the EU and recognize only the EU. Allow restoration only when an individual country withdraws from the EU or recognizes Texas as independent.
This would be just as much fun and might have some practical effect.
Panda: This is what I think of your New World Order. You are outnumbered, outplayed and outlasted. We Own You.
If you were, say, the CCP, and you wanted to takeover the USA, would you risk armed battle and a nuclear showdown? or would you
surreptitiously get Americans to lower their fertility and sperm counts?
surreptitiously get Americans to induce gender dysphoria in half the population?
surreptitiously get Americans to consider masculinity a”toxin” to be eradicated?
surreptitiously get Americans to short-circuit the rational side of their brains with DoubleThink like “a man can become a woman”?
surreptitiously get Americans to blithely accept that the US Military has replaced the American Flag with the Transgender Rainbow Flag?
It would seem like a pretty foolproof plan. Less bullets needed. No muscular resistance to the takeover to speak of.
Just asking for a friend.
And they say commies don’t have a sense of humor. 🙂
Do note that the Chinese diplomats arrayed at the rear table are all MASKED.
Some things in Xi-land will never change.
What a global colossus is our President Gramps!
After his imperial victory in Afghanistan, he has stumbled on from triumph to triumph. Gramps has managed to make the US the mortal enemy of both Russia and China, get the US engaged in a shooting war with Russia (through our colony Ukraine) and cause Russia and China to enter into an unbreakable alliance against us. All while setting the USD on the same path as the Zimbabwe dollar.
Gramps has sent the littlest Napoleon over to China to convince Xi that 1) he should stab his ally Russia in the back and make China a good subservient colony like the EU and 2) he shouldn’t ally himself with Russia and let China chart its own course free of American cultural rot and economic exploitation.
Xi’s answer to the littlest Napoleon? Get back to me when America stops messing around with our province, Taiwan. Until then, shut the hell up and go home. And take that Von Der Crazy woman with you.
It would have been funnier if Micron was in a high chair, with a phone book for a booster seat.
They would have been better off with bean bag chains