Janet Yellen does an 'Obama Deference Bow' to Communist China official

"If you would kindly turn around now, sir, I will be happy to kiss you on the cheeks"

Yet another U.S. government top official has shown China who's boss. Like former President Barack Obama, our U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has bowed down to a foreign adversary official in Beijing.

Yellen bowed multiple times in deference to her Chinese counterpart, Vice Premier He Lifeng while enthusiastically shaking his communist hand.

Fox News reported that Bradley Blakeman, a former G.W. Bush White House staffer, told the New York Post that the gesture was "unseemly."

"Never, ever, ever…an American official does not bow. It looks like she’s been summoned to the principal’s office, and that’s exactly the optics the Chinese love," Blakeman said.

This administration is an embarrassment and the world is either shaking their collective head, or laughing at us, or both.

Twitter users had something to say about the fool's behavior.

"Yellen’s flubs in China are not going to help the US stock market come Monday morning. Come home Janet!" "Taxifornia" author James V. Lacy wrote on Twitter.

During their meeting, He implied that the U.S. was an irrational actor towards China.

"We wish the US side would take a rational and practical attitude, meet with the Chinese side half-way, make joint efforts with China in maintaining the consensus reached between the two state leaders in their meeting in Bali, and put the positive remarks into actions, so as to stabilize and improve the China-US relations," he said.

"She did not realize bowing as an American official was a breach of protocol," author Max Murray wrote on Twitter. "They don’t reciprocate. He even backs away to give her more space to kowtow."

Yellen, in her Walmart greeter voice said: "[T]he United States will take targeted actions to protect our national security. While we may disagree on these actions, we should not allow that disagreement to lead to misunderstandings, particularly those stemming from the lack of communication, which can unnecessarily worsen our bilateral economic and financial relationship."

There is no excuse for bowing to an adversary. None. Her bowing was not a 'targeted action' to protect anything.

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